Although I am a big fan of RSS, I find this article very disingenuous.

The author complains about the chaos, vulgarity, and hostility of Twitter, but those complaints would apply to almost any social media platform.

Then he suggests replacing it with RSS feeds from curated, professional RSS sources, which is not social media. You could achieve the same things on Twitter if you just followed the same curated, profession Twitter feeds.

This is really just a roundabout argument that can be summarized as "don't read the comments."