With any current reader, you are able to control subscriptions, read and unread marks, better sharing integration across networks and exploring and finding of other feeds through services like Toluu.  Twitter is a force feed of data from anyone that passes a link along to you.

While you build your own community of people you wish to follow, actually parsing the content is another thing, mainly when you follow ~16k people like he does.  This would be incomprehensible even in a feed reader to keep up with the sheer volume.

Twitter is about getting in and out of the stream.  Taking a dip in the information flow.  You only drown if you choose.  RSS readers store the data for retrieval when you are ready and are sorted nicely into tags and groups.  Twitter is not close to this with lists yet and has quite a way to go, as I have noted.

With such add-on tools as the Feedly extenson for Firefox, your RSS feeds turn into a newspaper, list or magazine covers with incredible amounts of sharing integration.

Twitter works in the reverse since people need to be present and watching the stream to catch what you send out.  Not many are able to watch ~16k feeds and have the time to see each and every one.  Now imagine them in real-time scrolling by.  You would not be able to click to read links by the time a slew of others roled across.

I think he is right in that is is a great news source, that I use as well, and has immediate impact on trends and breaking stories.  But for real commentary, RSS is here to stay.

P.S. yes I follow Robert and I think he follows me as well (if I go use the tools on EverythingTwitter to verify).  But I still don’t expect him to see my content scroll by.  So I tossed an @ symbol in the title instead.  Get it?  My content will scroll by quick, but a conversation marker can be seen across his Twitter client.

Once before I had content taken from EverythingTwitter and republished.  The author of that blog responded promptly and sent a wonderful apology letter explaining that they were unaware of how the plugin was working and posting the content without attribution to the source.

However, it has struck once again.  I noticed it a few weeks ago on a new site that was registered June 15 2009 under the name TwitTrix.com with the registrant/administrative and technical contact being in England.  The site itself was registered in Jun of 2009, and content started appearing soon after.

With the current tools available for aggregation, it is tempting to take non-attributed and linked content for easy republication.  This moves beyond aggregation and into copyright issues.

Bloggers work hard for unique and valuable content, and often rush to be the first to have an article posted on a subject.  With this comes the responsibility of finding the right sources to give you ideas and generate topics, not a full copy/paste or import.

Some sites have taken a firm stance on how to deal with someone on their service that might have copyright material, like Blogger by Google.  While those of us that find content on self hosted servers do not have much leverage except to ask first.

So I turned to some sites that offer suggestions and advice on how bloggers can protect their content.  Plagiarism Today had 5 steps each blogger should take to protect content.  I suggest we all get to reading.  DailyBlogTips also had 12 Do’s and Don’t to follow which were good to add to the list.

Finally the place where I go to begin to even grasp how to blog effectively, ProBlogger and his excellent articles.  Including this one on protecting your content.