I’m sure this is not the first time you’ve been asked this question. However there’s nobody today that doesn’t wonder the answer. For me – yes, twitter can replace the RSS feed readers, and NO – feed readers are awsome!

Yes

First of all why do I use a feed reader? I’m simply seeing what’s in it and barely read the article from the reader, but rather I jump to the site, and what’s happening often in twitter is the same scenario, I just see what’s in the tweet and if it seems to be interesting to me I jump to the link (if there’s a link). The good thing is that the tweets are limited and I’m focused. That’s why twitter is my favorite social site. I can follow all of the interesting people I know from their blogs. So perhaps twitter is becoming more useful than the feed readers.

No

In other hand in twitter you’ve to stay all the day long to get all the tweets you need. The timeline is quickly changing and sometimes you get lots of “junk”. While in the feed reader you’ve all the “important” posts as an incoming mail. You cannot miss anything! That’s why I cannot forget the feed readers they are doing a great job!