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Twitter a terrible RSS replacement. With RSS I just got the news/blog posts I care about, nothing more. Following people on twitter I get some good links but

Twitter a terrible RSS replacement. With RSS I just got the news/blog posts I care about, nothing more. Following people on twitter I get some good links but mostly a lot of noise about personal life crap I really don't care. Normally I stop following someone if the valuable links to noise ratio gets too low. #notinterestedinwhereyouaredrinkingtonight

smackfu 12y ago
There's a neat feature in iPhone Safari. If you pull up the bookmarks page, there's an @ sign at the top, and that lists just tweets that have links in them.
pinaceae 12y ago
then follow sites. lots of them now have twitter feeds. see @daringfireball vs. @gruber. or the various @HN feeds.
- Touche 12y ago
  So what do you do when you aren't looking at Twitter in the timespan in which it appears in your feed? Just never see those articles?
  - nnkh 12y ago
    The same thing you do with RSS/Atom feeds. They don’t magically disappear unless they’re deleted. If you mean you think they would get buried under regular human tweets, you can make a list. I have a news list for this.
    - Touche 12y ago
      They do disappear off of your feed in which case you'll never see them again. There is no concept of "unread" tweets, like there is with RSS.
      - nnkh 12y ago
        You can scroll down. The latter is true.
        Touche 12y ago
        > You can scroll down. Not if you check it once a day (or even once an hour depending on how many things you follow), it's gone by then.
Pxtl 12y ago
Twitter is a replacement for RSS in the same way that DropBox is a replacement for running your own FTP server, both in terms of usability and liability.