It followed a post on Paul Bradshaw's Online journalism blog in which Malocolm Coles dared to suggest that as the feeds were being taken up less and less the time was right to switch to twitter.
There has been a staggering 40 replies of which I added by twopennyth worth replying that
Both Twitter and RSS should compliment each other.After all it is zero cost for both and the the more exposure the better,surely.
In these difficult times for the media,every avenue should be used to promote content
a view that I would stand by although I think that Malcolm makes a good point in the comments when he says that
For the general public, RSS feeds are a mystery. If they subscribed to one from a newspaper, they would soon be overwhelmed by the quantity of items in their RSS reader.
I use Bloglines and I have to say that some of the updating is a long way behind,consequently I end up picking a lot of feeds directly from twitter,but that then means managing twitter better than I probably do.
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