Twitter is the social RSS

Twitter is to follow the people and the means. The microblogging tool looks alike increasingly to a personalized way and substitutes the subscriptions RSS, or at least it completes them incorporating the social flow, the power of recommendation and of the contents shared in community.
There are some of the conclusions derived from a recent study of Barracuda Labs that confirms tendencies.
Other interesting aspects are the enormous effect multiplier for Twitter of his use for the famous persons and how it is used increasingly like a tool of personal and professional promotion to gain reputation in Internet.
Almost half of the users of Twitter (48 %) follow more people than it continues them. 36 % of the users is the big prescriptores: they have more followers than sources whom they follow, a growth of 80 % in this category, of only 20 % of the users in last June.
Who do the most intensive users watch the promotional power of Twitter: tuitean more those who have an average of 1.000 followers, while less (100.000 are that less tuitean.
The impact of the famous persons red carpet believe the effect, in Barracuda words. Between November, 2008 and April, 2009 it was the stage in which more famous personages joined, with a users' growth of 20 % a month during this epoch.
The investigation shows again the power of the social flow in Internet: the current of continuous information shared between the users. Every day more substitutes the criterion of the means and even the personnel in the selection of the contents and events to be continued.
The effect for the means is very important, since it forces them to take part in the social networks and to do it with contents and style more adapted for the interpersonal communication, the information like conversation and looking in every moment for details that are interest elements for the users.