&gt; A smart startup that pulls a user&#x27;s Facebook&#x2F;Twitter feeds and mixes in any other RSS&#x2F;Atom, as well as allowing users to post back to Facebook&#x2F;Twitter&#x2F;Atom could potentially spell the death of proprietary timelines.<p>A few years ago I would have said you were crazy. But after the race to replace Google Reader, the failure of Google+, the general sense of malaise that many people have with Facebook[1], and the political echo chamber and general bot fest that is Twitter[2], I think there&#x27;s room for another player here.<p>[1] despite, importantly, continuing to use it all the time<p>[2] my default working assumption when someone follows me is now that it&#x27;s a bot