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evgen on May 31, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter introduce the Follow Button

An order of magnitude fewer people use RSS than use Twitter, but fewer people use Twitter for the use case that RSS serves than use RSS for that purpose.

akkartik on May 31, 2011 [–]

I disagree. I think more people get their news from Twitter by following people they want to receive news from. What's more, the number of such people grows everyday, far faster than for RSS.

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