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Some people on Twitter are claiming that Twitter killed Google Reader, which I don't really get. It doesn't work the same at ALL.
Twitter did make it much more difficult to follow Twitter accounts via Google Reader, which I used to do, but I still use reader to follow blogs.
This didn’t take long: Hitler reacts to the Google Reader shutdown. I agree with everything that Hitler says here.
I think I laughed harder at this Hitler rant than all his others.
Hitler reacts to the Google Reader shutdown.
Bwahaha! Well, I won't say that made it all worth it, but I feel better now.
Feh. Hopefully someone has a tool to export/import all my feeds? Because I have way more subscriptions now than when I migrated over TO Google Reader from Bloglines.
Well, moving to Feedly was easy and I'm really liking it so far.
Jessica,
I exported an xml file from reader yesterday. I am using feedly right now - which has iphone app and that will have to do.
flipboard is also useful, but I may start thinking about ifttt.com alternatives for RSS feeds that I really need to read. I am now getting quite a lot of links from twitter, but there is key stuff I am missing, and ifttt can probably deal with that.
I do not understand this twitter alternatives. Are people tweeting updates to their sites and you follow that? How is that consolidated or automated?
She says, pausing to wonder if the provocateuse twitter account should be used for anything...
Are people tweeting updates to their sites and you follow that?
Yes.
How is that consolidated or automated?
I just connected Feedly to my Google Reader account, and Feedly says that when Reader goes away I won't notice any difference.
Feedly says that when Reader goes away I won't notice any difference.
Except it's my understanding that Google Reader is updating constantly, and I'm not sure other services will have the bandwidth/throughput to do that. Google Reader also keeps the old pages on its server, so if you want to look at old stuff it doesn't get re-pulled from the original site. Also not something I'm convinced all other services can do...
Apparently The Old Reader is getting hammered with requests. I may wait a month or two before switching to another service...
How is that consolidated or automated?
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No, I'm aware of the technical hooks--I mean as a consumer of tweets replacing an RSS feed to my consolidation tool--what is my interface there? The normal twitter front end and clicking on links? Wouldn't that top out pretty quickly in usability?