[marknutter]

Twitter and Facebook killed RSS. It's a far friendlier interface for people to keep up with news and people they find interesting. Geeks may be lamenting the loss of Google Reader, but they make up a very small percentage of the internet population these days. When I suggest that Twitter/Facebook is the new RSS I often catch a lot of flack for it, but honestly, that's how far more people consume information than any other service.

[illicium]

I can't subscribe to <insert-generic-Wordpress-blog-here> with Twitter/Facebook. With RSS, content authors only have to update their websites and not worry about crossposting to a social feed.

[marknutter]

That's exactly what "following" is.

[anigbrowl]

It's a far friendlier interface for people to keep up with news and people they find interesting.

A preference for having things automatically sorted into neat categories may not be as unusual as you think.

[camus]

> When I suggest that Twitter/Facebook is the new RSS

please explain how twitter and facebook are open protocols so i can suscribe facebook or twitter feeds on the long run without my facebook/twitter reader client breaking because of changes in the api or without having to create an account on their plateform.

RSS exists because it allows free flow of information. I dont recall facebook or twitter being open plateforms that promote interoperability.

[marknutter]

You're missing the point entirely. You are correct, they are not open protocols you can subscribe blah blah blah; ask a non hacker news reader if they care about any of that. You're answer will be "no". Twitter/Facebook are RSS for non techies, and they far outnumber non-techies.