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Twitter has its own usages (huge fans) as a micro-blogging and social interaction platform where as RSS has its own users. Now there would be an interesting choice for fans of these two platforms.
Traditionally RSS has been used by viewers and readers to get updates about new additions in their favourite blogs, websites and other platforms. The RSS feeds was converted to emails and other formats and delivered to the respective users. Folks using Outlook get their favourite blogs and updates in their Outlook (I am one of them) but now with almost every blog and website having their twitter accounts and updating them with the same frequency as RSS would have done on its own the usage of tweets can replace RSS to some extent.
RSS feeds many a times were released with a very small extract of the real post (teaser kind of thing) so that the readers are aware that a new post has been posted and would come to the website and read for themselves. These RSS feeds always have a link back to the main article embedded in them.
Now tweets also do the same thing in 140 characters, they send you a teaser and the short URL of the post.
Now you can follow your favourite website/blog/social platform and get the updates as tweets which you use anyway for personal reasons. With the twitter users in a up-swing the number of RSS readers should surely see some kind of decrease and the precise reason can be the new functionality introduced by twitter.
This page tells you to browse through your choice of topics and have look at the twiiters accounts who are considered to be good in them.
Now when you navigate to the “books” section you get a list of twitter users whom you can follow and get the information regarding you favourite subjects.
Now pretty heavy usage of this feature can be expected from more than 100 millions users of twitters.
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