Is Twitter Replacing the RSS Reader?

Last Friday, I was attending Portland’s weekly Beer and Blog event, and I stumbled across what later turned out to be an interesting trend. I had two separate, unrelated conversations about an hour apart with people working in the technology industry who once used RSS readers but had mostly abandoned them in favor of using Twitter to find news and interesting blog posts. I talked to a couple of other friends and posted the question on Twitter, which confirmed that many people are using Twitter as an RSS reader replacement. Read more at webworkerdaily.com

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OKLAHOMA CITY — As more than 125 people watched a Twitter demonstration Wednesday morning at the Saxum Social Media Summit, they learned from a tweet that Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett will run for a third term. Encouraged at the beginning of the summit to leave their cell phones on, members of the group began to retweet the news. Read more at www.edmondsun.com