Once touted as the future of digital content consumption, 2009 witnessed the continued decline of RSS Readers. "Many of us still use them, but less than we used to," writes ReadWriteWeb, which largely
attributes the rise of Twitter for the fall of RSS. Google still dominates what remains of the RSS market, while Bloglines is "hanging in there, but it seems like it's given up the fight judging by
lack of activity in its blog and traffic dips."
Overall, RSS reading is a very fragmented experience, today, due to the fact that consumers can monitor news and information via Twitter,
Facebook, start pages like Netvibes, their Firefox bookmarks, their OS, aggregators like Techmeme, and so on.
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