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Comment by pinaceae | Hacker News Reader

It is the best RSS replacement. Let's me follow a lot of good sources, across multiple platforms. And not just sites, but individual, interesting people.

The DM feature? You can only message followers, kinda useless.

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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 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

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.

then follow sites. lots of them now have twitter feeds.

see @daringfireball vs. @gruber.

or the various @HN feeds.

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?

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.

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.

You can scroll down. The latter is true.

> 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.

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.

It's a terrible RSS replacement. It's owned by a single company.

You can turn on 'anyone may DM me' in your profile.

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