Is Twitter an Alternative for RSS Readers and Subscriptions?
Currently for Crenk we have been noticing that more and more people are following our feed on Twitter. It has got to a stage now where there are more people adding us on Twitter everyday than subscribing to our RSS feed. Is this saying something? Is Twitter becoming more of an RSS reader for people or are they just following our feed in Twitter because we are fairly active and give actual responses to direct questions?
There has been a lot of talk recently about companies still not adopting new media as much as they should and especially Twitter, but I really cant understand why! Twitter is an amazing network tool for all types of companies and it can actually provide big organisation with an easy way to directly communicate with users. Branding on Twitter is easy to control and even easier to see who has been discussing your brand.
From my point of view I couldn’t live without my RSS reader, simply because I have so many sources of information and I can easily and effectively control and read them. Twitter could never be my RSS reader, but is it some kind of substitute?
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It will never replace RSS because the two are used differently, at least in my eyes….
I use my RSS reader as kind of my life line into what new things are going on with the sites that I am interested in….
I use Twitter largely as something to find interesting new things that I may RSS later and to keep up personally with the people I am interested in.
I imagine that most people use the platforms the same as me (maybe I am being to presumptuous though)