SS, short for Really Simple Syndication, helps you stream all of your news and blog sources into an easy-to-manage RSS reader such asGoogle Reader. Millions of people use RSS to keep up with Mashable, The New York Times, and even LOLcats.

However, it does have its limitations. The big one is speed. It can take minutes to hours for a blog post to reach the reader through RSS. This has been a big reason why more and more people are turning to real-time services like Twitter and FriendFeed for their news. In the real-time web, delayed news and information just isn’t good enough.

Now WordPress has done something big that eliminates that RSS delay problem and brings Wordpress.com’s 7.5 million blogs into real-time, along with any other self-hosted Wordpress blog. It has implemented RSSCloud, an RSS element that makes instant syndication of blog posts possible. However, it does have a few obstacles to overcome before your RSS is just like Twitter.