5 Twitter Effects (Subscribing To RSS Feed Is So Yesterday!)

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Size used to matter

Nobody cares about RSS Feed anymore. Once upon a time before Twitter's popularity, the number of RSS Feed subscribers a blog had was important. Very important. This is what bloggers bragged about. This is how bloggers used to get so much cybersex on Facebook. By bragging about the size of their Feed. Size used to matter. Not anymore.

RSS feed is what Yahoo Search used to be before Google emerged. RSS Feed is what MySpace used to be before Facebook rained on its parade. RSS Feed is what Chris Brown's career used to be before the Rihanna incident. Now, everybody watches Ashton Kutcher getting all the action.

Reasons Why Twitter Is Better Than RSS Feed

  1. Chore - Reading through a Feed is a chore and people are lazy. That's a catastrophic combination. The time it takes to just go though your Feeds to read, you could have read 19 tweets already.

  2. Exposure - Probably most of your blog readers follow you on Twitter, but aren't subscribed to your RSS Feed. It's these readers that need to be informed about your new posts via tweets. Twitter enhances exposure.

  3. Popular - Everybody's on Twitter. Even people who don't tweet have an account. Why? Because they know they're going to tweet someday. They have to. It sucks you in. It calls to you.

  4. Feedback - Twitter provides instant feedback. Some bloggers miss this opportunity by only tweeting their "important" posts. Naively assuming everybody that follows them on Twitter is also subscribed to their Feed.

  5. Speed - The world log-into Twitter the second they awake in mornings. Before brushing their teeth. Before breakfast. Before number one. Before number two. Even before number three.