I’ve noticed that I spend less and less time in Google Reader. I made sure to hit some of my favorite feeds and political bloggers, the comics that come in via RSS, a couple tech blogs, and whichever of my friends has posted something recently. But generally I’m most of my inbound interesting links from Twitter these days.

Reader has been pretty great for archiving though. I often search for a phrase or a name and find out what people I follow have written about it. It makes for a pretty powerful “personal library.”

Anyone else find they’re seeing more interesting things come through Twitter than Reader?

UPDATE: Matt posted a good comment below that made me realize I was incomplete in this post.

I think there are two main reasons I’m relying on Reader less.

The first is: volume. I have more than 500 incoming individual posts a day to Reader. And I like them all! I don’t think it’s a problem of quality, as Matt suggests, it’s an issue of finding the good stuff. Twitter is like a built-in filter, since generally people only share good links. But, as Matt points out Google has a very good “share with friends” option, which acts similarly. But it’s still hard to handle the volume sometimes. (Matt has also reminded me that I have not properly recognized when I find items from someone else’s shared items. I went back and made the change to the Target post I did, which was via Mary M.)

And the other reason I think I’ve moved to Twitter more for interesting links is that I’ve started to use Twitter as more of a communications tool, which means that I’m just more likely to be on Twitter now than Reader. Twitter has the benefit of combining interesting links with status updates from friends are doing with actual conversations and discussions. Reader only offers a portion of that, though what it does it does very well.