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# Twitter can't replace RSS
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2013/03/social-media-rss-replacement/
- Published: 2013-03-14T15:03:56.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:53:30.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: feed readers, rss, Social Media, X (Twitter)

Laura Hazard Owen, writing for Paid Content, identifies why the [“social media has killed RSS” idea doesn’t apply](http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/14/google-reader-please-dont-go-i-need-you-to-do-my-job/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) to many of us:

> The best thing about Google Reader, from my point of view, is that it allows me to scan a lot of information quickly, with the assurance that I’m not missing anything. That’s why, for me, it fills a completely different role than the (equally useful) Twitter does. Twitter provides a snapshot of a moment in time, and you’re likely to miss tweets as they whiz by; Google Reader stores everything. The search on Google Reader is also vastly better than the search on Twitter, and it goes back indefinitely.

Twitter is where I go to find out what’s happening. My RSS reader is where I go to become informed.