Twitter vs Slashdot

I was recently annoyed with the slashdot web site. I posted some commentary and a link to a new business' web site I came across and one of their editors market it as spam. I also recently observed that since I had been using twitter more regularly I only visit slashdot 2 to 3 time per week as apposed to multiple times every day.

I then googled for twitter effect on slashdot. The result was very interesting and as usual I got side tracked by the results. There are many references to "twitter effect" mainly centred around the impact on a web site when a link to it takes off on twitter similar to the digg effect or slashdot effect.

My guess is that many previous news/web link aggregation and dissemination sites have been replace by social networking sites like: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

I still frequent a few news sites and blogs directly, but I find that twitter is playing a larger role in me keeping on the pulse of what is going on right now. It makes me think of the impact the Internet had on newspapers as newspapers found themselves almost constantly out of date. Internet news sites are now more repositories of information than the source of news.

How has Twitter influenced your Internet interaction? Do you rely less on RSS feeds and previously popular websites?