Comments on: Using Twitter Lists Instead of Google Reader

By: The Twittering Masses Get Lists | Finley & Cook, PLLC

The Twittering Masses Get Lists | Finley & Cook, PLLC — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:32:33 +0000

[...] feature. Some are offering lists of Lists and questioning whether Twitter Lists might even serve as an adequate RSS-feed function like Google [...]

By: Zator

Zator — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:37:10 +0000

Personally I think Twitter is a good way to discover new content – if I like it I might subscribe using Google Reader. I don’t use Google Reader to discover new content (via its Explore feature) as it not as convenient and organic as Twitter

By: medlaw

medlaw — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:50:53 +0000

My biggest problem with twitter is the noise (as mentioned by Paul) but I must confess that I have not bothered yet to organization lists. Looking at the Scoble tech list example, one can see the problem. http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/tech-news-brands Lots of spam or filler but interspersed with real stories. Perhaps that beauty of twitter for this purpose is it’s 140 character limited. RSS feeds can be rather long to wade through manually.

By: My Wish List for Twitter Lists: Collaboration Features

My Wish List for Twitter Lists: Collaboration Features — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:52:27 +0000

[...] field, track a topic without needing to follow all of the relevant users and can even be used as an RSS reader replacement. Despite being such a new feature, people are already using lists as a measure of [...]

By: Alex Kessinger

Alex Kessinger — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:57:52 +0000

I am one of those people that prefer google reader, and when twitter launched lists without RSS, I was out of the loop. So I created an app to get RSS out of twitter lists, http://bit.ly/1wzieF

By: Allison Davis

Allison Davis — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:14:09 +0000

I’m still sticking with Google Reader, the UI is still better because of the keyboard shortcuts. When you have to go through over 1,000 articles a day, keyboard shortcuts become your best friend.

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:20:55 +0000

Presumably he gets it from people tweeting links to interesting stuff, and some Twitter streams (like ours) that automatically link to every article published by the site.

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:19:10 +0000

The point about URL shorteners is a good one, Paul — it does make it harder to track content in Twitter, esp when you are just skimming through the stream.

By: ¿Utilizar las listas de Twitter en vez d… « Varis

¿Utilizar las listas de Twitter en vez d… « Varis — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:26:22 +0000

[...] las listas de Twitter en vez de Google Reader? Es lo que plantean en WWD. [...]

By: Paul Anthony

Paul Anthony — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:10:35 +0000

I dont think I’ll ever move to using Twitter exclusively as my source of content.

Firstly,

Links coming into my stream are from a variety of sources. The noise makes it more difficult to consume content from the people I trust. URL Shorteners only add to the confusion – and prior to the click its hard to know if that content has come from them directly (their own blog) – or somewhere else. Bottom line, if I’m interested in what THEY have to say themselves, RSS provides that. Twitter on the flip side adds too much additional noise to their voice. If someone is on Twitter continually pimping their material, I tend to drop them like a hot potatoe. Its back to push verses pull marketing. Personally, I prefer to “pull” the stuff together myself.

Secondly,
RSS Readers allow a level of organisation, and preservation that Twitter does not. Its a rolling road, whereas RSS readers provide a much better interface for returning to interesting content. Yes, you can bookmark it, but I personally tend to remember I seen something on X blog, and return to RSS to retrieve. I DONT however sit and press the more button on their Twitter stream.

Just my two cents.