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puredemo on Aug 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey

>You're entitled to your opinion of course, but they invented the newsfeed!

Really?

Didn't RSS get popularized in like... 2003?

tdfx on Aug 12, 2011 | [–]

RSS is a way of consuming news information. The FB News Feed was novel in its approach of presenting other peoples' social actions as news.

JoeCortopassi on Aug 12, 2011 | [–]

Wasn't the 'newsfeed' a rip-off of Twitter as well?

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