Saturday, September 11, 2010

Twitter Displacing RSS?

Many users appear to be abandoning RSS readers as a way to read the news. Hitwise, for instance, tells us that visits to Google Reader are down 27 percent year-over-year, while visits to Bloglines are down 71 percent year-over-year.

Real-time news increasingly seems to be something people think they can get from Twitter, or maybe Facebook. It is clear that real-time search has become more crucial now that real-time content services have gotten more popular.

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