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Replacing Google Reader with Twitter is Nuts

Source: Nico's shared items in Google Reader

Oct 31, 2009

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Recently, Mr. Robert Scoble had posted on his blog about how he was giving up Google Reader in favor of Twitter for getting his news. Many people applauded his decision, some disagreed. Personally, I think he's positively nuts on this particular point and I'll tell you why.

Google Reader and Twitter are fundamentally different products that serve fundamentally different purposes, regardless of how many different uniforms people try to squeeze Twitter into -- but we'll disregard all that for now and focus on why Twitter, in it's current iteration and feature set, simply cannot function as a legitimate newsreading tool. I will do this by providing you with a dumb analogy I came up with while loading some towels in the dryer.

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