Twitter Has Killed RSS, Trackbacks, Comments, and Inbound Links.
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Just year ago I used to wake up and check performances of my websites, sometimes it was an hour long process to check trackbacks, buzz on Technorati, RSS submissions, Google Analytics, and website backend for comments, submissions, and recent activity. Now it just… who Tweeted me?
It is sad but people don’t link your site from their blogs, websites, and social profiles. Almost entire web community moved to Twitter and people prefer to Tweet favorite links, good articles, viral stuff etc. Amount of incoming links dropped dramatically especially in blogoshphere, Darren Rowse mentioned that amount of inbound links dropped dramatically. Even annoying individuals who used to comment and link everyone to make friends moved to Twitter and now they Tweet every website and user they can find.
Comments suffer as well since people prefer to Tweet instead of leaving real comments on a website. Some news and blog sites integrated Twitter reactions to their comment fields and it is clear that more people leave Twitter comments.
RSS is another story, it was almost dead before Twitter and now it is dead after Twitter took over. Webmasters never really check how many people subscribed and who reads their feeds, Twitter followers is the only thing which really matters this days. Google attempt to monetize feeds was a total failure, no one click sponsored ads in RSS feeds and bloghgers don’t make any money with RSS through Google AdSense.
Some experts suggest that Google will be the next victim, but I am totally disagree. Twitter will never replace Google unless it begin to provide Maps, Local business, Better Search, Video Search, News, Web Tools, Street View, and more. It will take at least 10 years for Twitter to build similar to Google infrastructure.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
I hate shorturls…
Twitter also annoys me… when pubsubhubbub takes off and makes all RSS feeds real time, no more 140 limit, you can send anything in real time, RSS will be back stronger then ever.
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September 24th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Yep, I hate 140 limit. For some people it is ok, but it is another proof that people are lazy.
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