Is Twitter Making RSS Readers Redundant?

Don Reisinger wrote an interesting article on how he uses Twitter to replace RSS readers. Personally, I still use RSS readers from my Windows machine and I don’t think Twitter is going to replace that any time soon.

However, I do understand that this Twitter phenomenon is something that I cannot ignore. Instead of using Twitter to post nonsensical things about my daily life, I have started using twitterfeed to post my latest blog posts to my Twitter account. Another service that does something like twitterfeed is TweetLater . What twitterfeed and TweetLater do is they take your RSS feeds and post the latest contents of your feeds to your Twitter account automatically.

You may grab content from more than 1 RSS feed and post it into a single Twitter account. The end result is you have a new RSS feed that is made up of 2 RSS feeds because every Twitter account has a RSS feed too. The possibilities are endless.

I have experimented with combining all the RSS feeds of my site, Oasis Fanatic, to create a “site summary” of all the latest updates. All the latest updates are now posted to the Oasis Fanatic Twitter account. I will be able to generate more traffic from Twitter to my web site with this method because some Twitter savvy users will check out the list of updates on my site from Twitter and click through to my web site.