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date: '2017-09-10'
title: 'RSS still beats social media for tracking news'
description: "Gizmodo has a simple explainer on why RSS still beats social media for news. If you don't currently use an RSS reader, check out the post and the services it recommends."
tags: ['RSS']
---

**[David Nield, Gizmodo:](http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/why-rss-feeds-still-beat-facebook-and-twitter-for-track-1800722740)**

> Whether you've never heard of it before or you've abandoned it for pastures new, here's why you should be using RSS for your news instead of social media.<!-- excerpt -->

Gizmodo has a simple explainer on why RSS still beats social media for news. If you don't currently use an RSS reader, check out the post and the services it recommends.
