@DrHyde @Sethuels @pluralistic @NadiaYvette (More specifically, RSS was where the journalists were, which created a permeability between mainstream media and the longform blogosphere. But they were universally there via Google Reader. Network effects surrounding media influence then migrated almost entirely to Twitter. The rest is sordid history. Arguably, the journalistic migration to Twitter was inevitable and crashing RSS just sped things up. We’ll never know.)