RSS and Atom feeds are not appropriate schemas for a new distributed Twitter
RSS and Atom feeds will not a distributed Twitter make. Not because they aren’t “real-time”, but because the notion of “titles” simply isn’t conversational.
The schema of the feeds dictates to a large degree the end-user experience. Twitter’s 140 character limit has surprised, impressed, and enlightened the lot of us techies. How could such a severe limitation actually works to the end user’s benefit? Easy: it makes a tweet stream readable. If you want to publish into the conversation, you have to conform to the standards and keep it short; people are skimming this information.
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