plane in the Hudson, Osama bin Laden raid) Why did Twitter succeed? mobile-friendly + follow model + discovery + information density (due to initial 140 character constraint) + feed to go during real-time (e.g.Twitter (2006) was a simpler UX and dramatically expanded the market for information broadcast.Google launched the free Google Reader in 2005 and killed market independent RSS readers better UX but still power user-focused.

Technical / power user UX for infovores (journalists, investors, etc.).

RSS is an information broadcast technology (like Twitter).

Long-term, the graph likely lives on a blockchain to allow developers permissionless access to build a rich ecosystem of different clients, directories, block explorers and custom recommendation algorithms. Solves for the ghost town problem by leveraging existing blogs that already have RSS feeds. It’s a way to back into building a Twitter competitor. People may find it helpful to see what questions we asked and tried to answer when starting out.Īn enhancement to RSS which gives it a social graph and associated social actions. The initial name for the protocol was RSS+. Between all of these, you can find an RSS feed for the vast majority of sites and pages out there, but if that’s not enough you’ve got another option.I’ve mentioned before that the original question we set out to answer when building Farcaster was how could you make RSS competitive with a public broadcast social network like Twitter. We’ve outlined a few more tips in the past, including adding a Twitter feed to your RSS reader and finding an RSS feed for any YouTube page.

If a blog is hosted on Tumblr, simply add /rss to the end of the homegpage’s URL.

You can do the same thing for individual author pages, if you want.

For example /example-site becomes /feed/example-site. If a blog is hosted on, simply insert /feed/ before the publication’s name in the URL.If a site is hosted on Blogger, simply add feeds/posts/default to the end of the URL, for example.You can also do this for category and pages, to get specific RSS feeds. If a site is built using WordPress, simply add /feed to the end of the URL, for example.

Rss of twitter feed