Steve, I was just about to give up RSS for Twitter, but then a few weeks ago, you wrote that Twitter had peaked, so I decided to just wait until the next thing I'm supposed to give up for the next thing I'm supposed to trade it in for. - Rex Hammock

Rex, you're a good man. - Steve Rubel from IM

for me Twitter supplements my RSS consumption but doesn't replace any of it. Twitter is more about discovery of things I wouldn't normally know about via RSS. - Tac Anderson

I agree, it is more like mining for information on twitter. - Drew Lucas

Don't have time for both RSS and Twitter so I focus on the current conversation over the archive. - Jason Catena

Twitter & Hacker News have taken up most of frequent, distracted attention I used to spend on reading feeds. I still go back to feeds to do my deep reading tho - Kingsley Joseph

I have to agree that RSS has fallen off my radar due to the time I put into Twitter and other Social Media tools (FF). - John Flynn

I second John Flynn's remarks. - Jeff Stannard

I feed social networks with RSS... so if I stop, and everyone else stops... where is the information going to come from? - Bwana ☠

Nope, RSS is still extremely useful especially coupled with #Feedly - Rick Bucich

twitter is snacking, rss is having diner. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin - fully agreed. - Richard Zeidel

I will never ditch RSS. It is too easy and great. I don't check as often as Twitter, but I can save posts and refer back to them when I need to. I can also easily find blogs there, rather than my bookmarks, which is flooded. Twitter is GREAT, but who knows if it will last? MySpace was great once, too. RSS is more stable than a social network, and easier to sort (no hashtags required). - Angela Wilson

I wouldn't. For the Twitter and RSS have different uses. And I wouldn't spam the people that follow me at twitter with links to posts. - Bibi

No way. Never. - Louis Gray

Not ditched, but Twitter's become my primary social RSS. They're different rabbits. - phil baumann

two different things...two different uses. ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

i use friendfeed for both feedreading and twitterstream. - lodro

I'm just cutting down on number of followers and feeds. Seems to help with managing information overload. - Dave "Freedom 35"

Twitter is too ephemeral... would need some organization (folders/tags/saved-searches) and mark-as-read functionality at the very least for me to even consider it. RSS is essential to me for required reading and for discovery. - LogEx

Not at all, if anything Twitter/Friendfeed etc has helped me find new RSS feeds to add. - Adam Turetzky

That's like hiring the garbage company to DELIVER trash to your door. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

if anyone did it, he's an idiot - Zio Bonino

Twitter for Microblogs and Status Updates, Google Reader for regular blogs, Friendfeed for actual conversations! - Dane Findley

Ditching RSS in lieu of Twitter?? What's next, ditching email for DM's? Not a smart move. - Kevin Pruett

I think Kevin just summed it up nicely. I'll just add: The number of websites who provide real-time updates to Twitter is minuscule. When that changes, then we'll talk about swapping RSS for Twitter. - Alexander Grundner

Nope, absolutely not. Twitter serves its purpose as microblogging and link sharing but RSS still has a purpose for me. Not everything I read is shared through Twitter (actually, I should hope not!). If I got all my news through Twitter, it would be more of an echo-chamber than it already is. Further more, I work in marketing. I use RSS to keep up with client industry news and to aggregate information. Twitter cannot do this for me. - Violet Mae Lim

I got sick of reading long blog posts about the best way to develop software.... at least with twitter you get rid of long windedness. :) - Paul Kinlan

i did not. and i won't you can't find in 140 char what a full page gives you - Ouriel Ohayon

I've pushed most of my feeds to Twitter.For me, trying to keep up with RSS was like having another email inbox from hell. Now I catch what I can and let the rest pass over me. http://bit.ly/YQcK5 - Tech Introvert

...i've mostly ditched blogging for Twitter. - .LAG liked that

I have ditched RSS for FriendFeed. I prefer the Real-Time Web. Welcome to the RTW! - Dimitar Vesselinov

I'm with Dimitar... go FF go! - Janice

Everyone! Haven't you heard -- Twitter is dead. Oh wait. I'm confused. RSS is dead. Umm. Steve Gillmor? It's TechCrunch -- it's dead. That's right. - Dave Winer

Feedly + Firefox really makes Google Reader useful, IMHO - .LAG liked that

no way. though i have reduced the number of feeds i actively keep up with. - coffee

++Lag. Love my Feedly plus FF/Twitter. I have cut down on feeds however. - Bonnie Foster

I love my netnewswire. It's all the stuff I've personally asked for rather than the stuff others feel they need to throw at me. - Josh Kinal from twhirl

yup, same here - Jeremiah Owyang

I'm still using my RSS readers a lot. Google Reader on line and Byline on the iPhone. Less "clicks" on the iPhone. - Mike Beck

OK, so this post brought out mostly RSS lovers (which I remain). Yet why is it that some are now railing against RSS? Here's another thought RSS = a standard. We have no standards for status updates and thus Twitter and Facebook are in the driver's seat. RSS is final and stable. - Steve Rubel

Nope. I see different uses in the different services. I like the organization of a reader. and I like your comment about the standards and stability and lack thereof on Twitter and FB. Also, I like to pick my news sources and trust that I am getting something accurate. SkyGrid is a nice combination of real fast / real time and reliable. - Martha

On the contrary, besides using Twitter, I've added lots of RSS from Twitter to Google Reader. - Mike Reynolds

My comment is a bit suggestive because of my work with Alltop. But even so, Twitter could not replace the gens I find via RSS too. - L.P. NEENZ FALEAFINE

Not me. Twitter is still too noisy. - Tamar Weinberg

why ditch anything? - Sheri Fresonke Harper

Sheri- Because people like to talk about this "king" "killing" that "king" and "destroying" this "queen" blah blah blah. ;) In my opinion, one new form of technology or communication doesn't always have to replace another. - Violet Mae Lim

That question is ridiculous. RSS is far easier to manage and customize and can deliver a lot more information. Watching the interests of your social graph on Twitter is great, but far more and higher quality information can be consumed, (re)organized, and aggregated with a good RSS reader. - David Chartier

I'm stuck between using FriendFeed and Google Reader but I defenetely like FF more than twitter for that function! - Brian from BuddyFeed

Still like both. With Twitter I feel like I keep up with individuals better, and catch new stuff earlier than I might anywhere else. Reader still gives me a ton of good reading from all the places I like best though ... - Patrick Jordan

I still use RSS but more for reference. I get the link to the post in Twitter and then go look at the feed - Janet Fouts

I'm still a fan of Netvibes, and I have not ditched RSS for Twitter, I've made some RSS out of Twitter searches, does that count? - Albert Maruggi

FriendFeed replaced RSS for me a while ago. - Thomas Hawk

Ditch RSS for Twitter? Never. RSS is the fuel for the real time web - they're complimentary products. http://bit.ly/10dkr8 - AJ Kohn

I will most likely not ditch ditch rss for twitter, both are good and valuable, but rss is useful since one can't always read it - Justin Yost

Ditched RSS for FriendFeed ;) - LPH™ and his dog P™

I really never understand why you should give up RSS for Twitter. Why? Could someone please explain this über productive idea? - Jan Friman from Nambu

i'm still a heavy Google Reader user. - Alex

The more interesting question may be how many have replaced RSS with FriendFeed... - Josh Street from twhirl

<sigh> I dunno. I see twitter as a subplot of FF and FF is also a subplot. Even slashdot used to be cool. - Derek Lords

Haven't heard Slashdot mentioned in years - Mike Reynolds

Ditching RSS for Twitter will work as the idea that people wouldn't look at paintings once photos came out - shelisrael1

I think there is some confusion here. Are we talking about giving up on the technology that is called RSS, or are we simply talking about switching the platform on which we consume these ie. ditching google reader for friendfeed or twitter. Friendfeed lives on RSS feeds, the links you get on twitter most probably come straight out of someone's rss reader. The question is, if we ditch RSS then what technology is going to replace it and distribute our news? Twitter is not a replacement, it's simply a platform where people share, it's not a distribution channel in itself (apart from the 140 char). - Kasper Sorensen

I discover more of value through friendfeed than twitter, really. But once I determine the long term value of a site it goes into my google reader, if it's Really important (i.e. top 10) it goes in my operamini feeds on my phone. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

The talk of Twitter replacing RSS feeds is misguided. You'll have to rip Google Reader out of my cold dead hands. Twitter (and Friendfeed) are useful, bur provide less value to me than mr Greader feeds. - ron k jeffries

I agree @ron - Justin Yost

it is like dithing your car for fishing: they are not the same. More precisely, Rss gives you focuses attention on the sources of information. Twitter gives you second hand check-it-outs that are possibly not so focused or accurate, but *seem* more urgent because they are in real time. - Michele Costabile

I use RSS, don't like twitter, and seems no reason. - yagami

How many of you have ditched bathing for Twitter - and if so why? - Dave Winer

I ditched porn for Twitter since, you know, it makes so much sense to do so. - Scott Jarkoff

I use both RSS and Twitter. I use Twitter more frequently though. - Donelle

RSS is quite useful, both serve their own purpose - Erik Magraken

this is BS, twitter can't and won't replace RSS, neither will friendfeed for that matter - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Twitter gives me a portal to the author but won't replace RSS - Joe Dawson

I increasingly use Twitter Search rather than Google Search or RSS to find cleantech news to blog about. - Bob Morris (polizeros)

Nopes, Twitter has a long way to go before it replaces RSS. My days begins by reading 500 feeds, imagine how many tweets would I have to go through to get all those news! - Rajtilak Bhattacharjee

Friendfeed can do that. Not twitter - Rohit from twhirl

For ordinary web users who are only interested in a handful of feeds, maybe 10 or 20 then twitter beats a feed reader hands down. Much simpler to use, easy to understand and real time. Plus twitter has the social media/communication features. However power users that are tracking 100 or more feeds need a reader for their research. The google reader / feedly combination is hard to beat for these people. - Adrian

Google reader is evil and must be destroyed. Who has time to sift through 400 unread posts per day? - Tech Introvert

How can Twitter replace a few decent RSS feeds? Not understanding the Twitter love... - George Gray

I don't understand, RSS and Twitter are two different services. Have I missed something? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I spend time on Twitter where I would have otherwise been in Google Reader. It's easier to follow trending topics on Twitter. - Peter Warnock

did a blog post a while back called 'my network is my search engine' but truth is, probably meant my 'network is one of my rss feeds' - not an either or proposition for me - leigh himel

Many RSS feeds push their content thru Twitter, which makes Twitter a real-time RSS reader (that doesn't act like a horrific email inbox, ahem Google Reader). FF is an even better implementation of this, if only more sites pushed their feeds thru FF. - Tech Introvert

No, they're two different use cases for me. Twitter is real time conversation. RSS is non-real time information. - Ian Betteridge

What Ian said. IMHO, their strengths are so different it would be silly not to use both. - Karen Mohler

If anything, Twitter points me towards more stuff to add to my RSS! - Amie Gillingham

Yeah, what Ian said. I'd just get lost in the info if I got all RSS via Twitter. - Julie Barrett from twhirl

I am using RSS in FriendFeed. What I have ditched is Google Reader. RSS is underlying technology, not an application. We'll keep using that underlyng technology for a long time. We may ditch the readers, but not the RSS itself. - Bora Zivkovic

I haven't ditched sourcing news via RSS for Twitter, but I have subscribed to more news via Twitter and find myself getting it more frequently on twitter. - tekhelet

This isn't the right kind of debate. It's distracting from the fact that both are useful. - William Mougayar

nope, not going to happen. A) twitter doesn't have all the blogs I read B)there's no good aggregation of blog notices - I can't come back 2 days later & find older content. - clarke thomas

Feedly + Google Reader > Twitter (for feeds, obv) - Bryan Penczak

For Twitter? No, maybe for Friendfeed in some time. - Diego Espinoza V.

Because I got the gist of the post and a quick link in the same stream. No more reader for over 12 months - derek

i ditched twitter - Marcus Brown

Traditional RSS readers are even more boring than Facebook. Stopped using them a long time ago. I do consume RSS feeds still in FriendFeed but though a socially filtered lifestyle. - Thomas Hawk

I have pretty much ditched RSS for FriendFeed. I use Twitter also. - Bill Romanos

for must part..BUT subscribing via RSS to derivations from Twitter can be useful, for example, I subscribe via RSS to http://www.whatthetrend.com/ . It gives me the day's trends PLUS explanations as to why which is key. Extremely useful to go through just in case I missed something during the day. - Mike Bracco

your followings are your feed source - Human Syndication. spending most of your time on Twitter, you dont have time to switch to RSS. Also, with RSS feeds coming from media companies, news may not break as quickly with human syndication which Twitter provides. With RSS feeds coming from Blogs, the news will have broken out on Twitter prior to that blogger's RSS feed hitting you somehow (whether on FriendFeed, Twitter etc). If you follow the tech industry say, your population sample of followings on Twitter will likely break this news prior to one receiving that same content from a RSS blog feed. If Twitter does not fix the followings issue, more and more people will use FriendFeed; however, they have to learn to use Twitter first. - iTbay

No. RSS still has a place on my computer (or at least in my web browser). I prefer it for it's easy-to-read aspect and it's speed (Google Reader is awesome). Twitter is for discovery, as is friendfeed. - Amy H.

RSS bankrupcy. Hundreds of blogs unread. By reading Twitter only on the web and not on the phone, and using Twitter search, I get what I get. The rest finds its way, so I don't have to pile up enormous wads of reading in my Google reader. RSS is still absolutely vital, however, for those who block you on Twitter. You search their name, RSS the search results, read them on Google. My new Google read attention space is the ppl like @ajkeen who have blocked me on Twitter. - Prokofy Neva

I subscribe to Twitter hash-tag and keyword searches via RSS and read them in Google Reader. I see the them as complimentary. - Mike Boudreaux

I usually have Google Reader/feedly & TweetDeck open at the same time. - Jason R. Hunter

Hundreds of RSS feeds and no time to consume; Twitter better fits my lifestyle. Plus, the community that surrounds me shares very similar interests, so I can count on useful info from them. - Paul Chaney

"Having RSS feed" =/= "using Twitter", so I read the RSS of a lot of sites every day via NetNewsWire. - Rick Cogley

I use RSS to read Twitter (meaning) I can follow some people on Twitter via Google RSS reader (without really following them). Does that make sense? - Doug Vos