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By: Sofie

Sofie — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:18:59 +0000

Well I think that Twitter is actually a good source of instant small news alerts. But for more reading like articles etc twitter can not compete. So I think there is room for both. I use Google Reader but lately been trying out Fever RSS (http://feedafever.com) reader and Attency (http://attency.com) reader and one of these is going to replace google reader as soon as I can decide.

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Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:01:07 +0000

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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:12:02 +0000

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By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:11:59 +0000

Jesse. Just because you don’t understand a thing doesn’t mean it doesn’t work. Lots of people use twitter and find it useful. Equally lots of people use RSS and find it useful. Both are used and loved by the people that they appeal to. I’m not saying that either camp is right or better. I’m not even saying that ‘old school’ is wrong. I’m pretty old school myself in lots of things – and I do think that having an attention span is a generally a good idea. However, as a method of sipping delicately from the gushing fire hydrant of information which is the internet, Twitter is (for me) the best tool I’ve found to date.

On Twitter I follow bloggers who write well written blogs and then tweet links to their entries. I tune out (or don’t follow) people who tweet over each other with nothing to say. I also find links tweeted which lead me to meaningful chunks of information I would not have found any other way. But if I miss a few days I don’t come back to find stacks of unread posts. I think it’s a pretty straightforward difference too. I get that lots of people don’t like or understand Twitter. I was in the same camp when I first started using it.

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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:44:17 +0000

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By: sfmitch

sfmitch — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:00:07 +0000

@Jesse

I agree 100%.

I am still waiting to find a Twitter feed worth reading – I have tried a few that were recommended and a few that I tried on my own and it was just a bunch of crap or links to blogs that I was already discovering in my RSS.

The only really good thing I have ever seen on twitter is from – http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays

The worst part of twitter that I’ve seen is that I’ve seen some folks who had great blogs, reduce their high quality blog posts and replace them with low quality tweets.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:25:06 +0000

So Ian, you’re saying that having an attention span is old school. I don’t think that’s an uncommon mindset, but I still disagree with it. I subscribe to well-written blogs I’ve decided are worth my time to read. Just about everything I’ve seen on Twitter or have been referred to on Twitter was completely useless. It’s like reading Digg or Reddit. I check back every few months, but I can’t remember a time when any of them provided a meaningful chunk of information to me. I’ll take one good article written about something I’d like to know about over 500 people trying to tweet over each other with nothing useful to say. I think it’s a pretty straightforward difference, and as soon as someone points out a solid use for Twitter I’ll spend a bit more time using it.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:39:53 +0000

I’m not saying that RSS is old school. I’m more saying that people with a modern mindset which is used to reading books, buying newspapers, watching documentaries and listening to albums is more likely to prefer subscription services. Whereas the post-modern mindset which is more used to soundbite television, google surfing, text messages and MP3 downloads is more likely to prefer twitter.

Twitter can be meaningful. It’s just attention span deficit oriented.