Lamenting Twitter’s Victory Over RSS

That’s it. The crucial but not-well-understood technology of RSS is quickly being eclipsed by the monstrous momentum of Twitter. While RSS is still needed for the exposure of web site updates in a standard format, the consumption of these updates is headed towards Twitter.

Now with The Oprah talking about Twitter, it’s bound to go even more mainstream. You know the first time Oprah directs her now 330K+ Twitter followers to a link, the site will suffer the “Digg effect.”

Yeah, yeah, RSS will go on since it’s absolutely needed, and Twitter and RSS can complement each other. RSS will just be relegated to the technology back row never receiving the public fanfare or digirati support like Twitter has.