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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by dabernathy89 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @07:02PM (#10847214)
Ask 99.9% of Twitter users what RSS is, and I think you'll have an idea of the "leg up" that Twitter has.

* Not to mention, even if folks knew what RSS was, they don't necessarily want to host their own blog.

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by smt88 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @07:12PM (#10847266)
Ask 99.9% of Sticher/Pocket Casts/Overcast/iTunes users what RSS is. They'll have no idea, and yet those apps rely on RSS to subscribe to podcasts.

The application can obfuscate the underlying technology. You don't need to know what RSS is to use it every day and love it, just as you don't need to know about DNS, TCP/IP, or most other internet technologies to enjoy the web.

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by dabernathy89 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @07:48PM (#10847446)
Ok, that makes sense, although the content creators for iTunes, etc, still often have to find out what RSS is.

I'm still not sure what your point is - you said Twitter is trying to "be" RSS, but that's just the format, not the application. Twitter is not trying to aggregate content from elsewhere, either.

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by laumars on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @06:44AM (#10849981)
> "Twitter is not trying to aggregate content from elsewhere, either."

Maybe not directly, but they sure make it easy for third party sites to have "Share this article via Twitter" buttons.

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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets by gcr on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @07:11PM (#10847260)
Twitter already was tech jargon just a while ago. Maybe we just need the right marketing campaign. RSS = "I'm Ready for Some Stories!", the Oprah way: http://www.backinskinnyjeans.com/2006/09/how_to_explain_.htm...
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