Are RSS feeds used? [closed]

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Published on 2011-11-15T21:42:03Z Indexed on 2011/11/16 2:07 UTC
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I was thinking about implementing RSS feeds on my site. The one thing that came to mind is

Are RSS feeds ever used?!

I don't use them nor know anyone who does. I know to use them it must be through an rss feed program or built in with the browser. I like my browser clean and i know many ppl dont know how to use/configure their browser.

So with my thoughts i deducted that rss are not used 99.9999% of people (thats 4 decimal places which is really saying something).

Now twitter on the other hand or even email may be used. But I have doubts about rss feeds. Can anyone give me statistics or change my mind on implementing it? I suspect it would be simple but i dont think i should bother if no one will ever use it. I dont even use SE/SO RSS feeds.

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