Google announced last night that it will be shutting down its RSS feed, Google Reader, in a couple of months. It was an unpopular decision. On twitter the black smoke rising from Google obsured most other news – “Google Reader” reached the top of worldwide trends, even with a new pope elected – and every tweet was outraged.
Some of these outraged twitter users were clearly hoping that their disappointment might make Google change their minds. After all, it’s a user-influenced feature – no? Well no. At least, not enough of one:
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