Is RSS Really Dead?

Is RSS Really Dead?: "

I'm usually the last guy to know, and the first to admit it, but is RSS really dead? I keep seeing posts claiming Twitter and Facebook have essentially replaced RSS as the way folks filter their news these days, but I for one am still addicted to my RSS client (it's Shrook, for anyone who still cares).

Perhaps RSS isn't dead, but instead it's professionalizing. It's the Beta to the VHS of Twitter. Higher quality, better signal, but more expensive in terms of time, and used only by folks 'in the industry.'

I write, every single day (especially with Signal), and I consume a lot of feeds in order to do that. I need a professional tool that lets me do that efficiently, and so far nothing beats an RSS reader. But I'm serious about my feeds, and most folks, I guess aren't.

Or are you? I mean, sure, Feedburner is languishing over at Google, I hear, but

hell, I have 207,000 readers consuming my feed, at least, that's what Google tells me. And that's up from about 170K earlier this year. Are you out there, RSS readers? Or am I blasting XML into a ghost town?

Just wonderin. Shout out if you're here, guys. And shout out if you're reading this because someone pointed to it on Twitter....

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