RSSCloud VS. Twitter, and the winner is…

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Rsscloud in a blow out. Granted Twitter did pioneer the “real time”, but the hype that got them to the top is really starting to annoy people. Especially with all the spam. I also think that while 140 is useful for mobile communications, it is just a gimmick and really does make you more stupid.

Twitter had a rough month. They were under heavy attacks from hackers and spammers. Facebook partners with friendfeed, and now WordPress.com turned on the cloud. This spells disaster for Twitter

What is the RSSCloud? simply it is a way of “pushing” content to you, not you having to go get it. While you don’t go get anything on the interent, you do have to refresh your browser, or hit send and receive in Outlook, to see if new information has come to you. With RSSCloud, as soon as you publish anything that pings the  RSSCloud, it become available. There are not many readers that can use the could yet… I don’t think there are any as of today [there are 2], but once my reader of choice, Google Reader, connects to the cloud… twitter will be pretty much useless.

I’m actually a little disappointed because I just made a real time twitter news feed for WordPress with auto-updating. More on this plugin later. Here is an example feed for real estate

Now, with the cloud we has a tool that you can send instant messages to people that follow you, and they aren’t limited to the 140 characters. I can send a “Hi” to a friend or I can write a full blog post. I can send images, links, video. Stuff that really matters and doesn’t make you follow a shortend hidden url. Life will be good. Real time with real information

RSS isn’t just for blogs either. This will open up syndication on a new level. I can already see how this will help me wife with her real estate business. Getting information out to clients in real time. My mortgage company will truly be able to release wholesale mortgage rates to the public.

Both technologies require developers to build applications around. I have years of excpericence with WordPress and about a year with Twitter API. At this fork in the road, I choose to follow WordPress. Not only do I think twitter is hurting with their limited medium, but I have also had trouble with the Twitter API and  Twitter Support. WordPress wins hands down when it omes to getting the answers to common problems and getting things done.