What're you doing up so early? Weird. - Mona Nomura

Complete with echo chamber - Bwana ☠

Not! - ·[▪_▪]·

Explanation? While I know you *can* use Twitter as an RSS aggregator, why in the world would you *want* to? Or am I missing the point here? - Gregory Pittman from twhirl

first alert system? yes... RSS feed? not so much. - Sam Harrelson

you think so? what makes you say that? - Bill from twhirl

I've been noticing patterns of traffic. I could blog something (prolific or not), and it will likely get lost in the shuffle. Interactivity is there, but even with a comment form, responses aren't immediate. RSS suffers from the inability to comment directly to a feed item, but Twitter... helps get your idea (or link) across with the least amount of fuss and the highest potential amount of fanfare. Facebook comes second. FriendFeed, third. - l0ckergn0me

Correction: FriendFeed, a distant third. - l0ckergn0me

RSS of raw feeds also suffers from the lack of social filtering. Popular aggregator blogs like BoingBoing, and social link services like Digg, percolate popular and interesting items to the top, but duplicates become a problem when you try to follow too many of those. - LogEx

But RSS isn't going away. Either I'll consolidate my OPML into FF, or bring Twitter and FF RSS into GReader. The problem with Twitter and FriendFeed, right now at least, is that they capture orders of magnitude less content than RSS. - LogEx

how so? - Ryan

RSS isn't going to disappear - heck, even Twitter has RSS. Blogs have RSS, too. Our attention has been fragmented, and Twitter is that "shiny light" which remains brighter than the rest. - l0ckergn0me

+1 Bwana - Shey, Jamaican of FF

In case you guys are skeptic, Chris tends to nail these trends months before the "experts" do - Bwana ☠

The only comment I'd make is that Twitter/FF are meta-data, while RSS is the DATA. In some ways I see Twitter as the notification system and RSS as the consumption system. - Brian Roy

I agree, Brian, but Chris is also right. Twitter is now a crowdsourcing tool in the same way that RSS also notifies people of new posts. - Chris Baskind

Honestly, I'm glad Twitter is ahead of Facebook. I hate crowdsourcing Facebook. - Bwana ☠

http://bit.ly/info/artician - there's no way I could have driven that many clicks in such a short amount of time on my blog. No way in hell. Retweets also trump comments / trackbacks due to the inherent network effect. Twitter won't replace blogs, it won't replace RSS, but you can sure as hell bet it's more effective in certain respects. - l0ckergn0me

I knew this was related to that bit.ly track :) I was watching that yesterday - Bwana ☠

Bwana, Facebook is still a walled garden (and will continue to be). I might receive or post responses there, but they're seemingly lost in the shuffle. Could boil down to numbers, but I'm more inclined to believe it's the nature of the closed platform. - l0ckergn0me

And yet...Crowd Surfing Facebook is somehow a lot of fun! - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Precisely why it's a pain for me. :) - Bwana ☠

i like turtles... - 4four1ones

Chris - So I totally agree that twitter (and friendfeed) are far superior to RSS for information discovery. The interconnected social graphs of the users along with the ability to "tell my friends" is far and away the best system we have for information discovery. Facebook isn't about information discovery. - Brian Roy

Facebook is a "destination" site. They want you to go there and stay. By definition, anything that you click on that takes you out of facebook is bad for them. Think Yahoo ala 1997. - Brian Roy