Three months ago, Google announced that it was discontinuing their RSS reader, stating that the program had been losing users for awhile and indicating that the team responsible for the project wanted to look forward to other options. The announcement was hardly shocking, considering Google’s tendency to cut the cord on entities that fall short of expectations, but a surprising number of Google Reader users have come out of the woodwork since. Now, with the program’s July 1 termination date nearing, the question of where those displaced users will relocate is growing more prominent.

The answer, it seems, may be concealed inside a series of exclusive, snail-mail invitations that Facebook recently sent out for a June 20 press event. According to an article posted Saturday by The Register, the invitation leaves much room for speculation, merely stating that “A small team has been working on a big idea,” and that invitees should “Join us for a coffee and learn about a new product.” For all the invitation gives away, that “product” could be anything.

However, a Scottish developer may have cracked the code on the mysterious invite. Tom Waddington, a web manage for the site Cut Out + Keep, discovered mention of RSS feeds in Facebook’s code. According to Waddington’s blog, the code indicates that users “have RSS feeds,” and that each RSS feed “has multiple entries, and a list of subscribers.”

Waddington went on to write that he couldn’t attain access to the feeds, and that, at least for the time being, they are locked down. But considering the Google Reader’s shuttering, Facebook’s impending announcement, and CEO Mark Zuckerburg’s recent ambitions to make Facebook more than just about social news, the announcement of a new RSS reader seems like a reasonable explanation.

“We want more than a single feed of content,” Zuckerburg said in March, following the overhaul of the Facebook news feed.  “We want to give everyone in the world the best newspaper we can. It should have high-quality public content and socially relevant content, and to drill into any topic.”

The Google Reader, despite its now-discontinued status, appeared to be a fairly stalwart fixture within the professional world, with many aggregate news sites and industry analysts using it as a go-to tool for accessing and reading RSS feeds. Google’s decision to close down the project left many users out in the cold, resulting in a behemoth, 150,000 signature petition and a fair amount of internet uproar. However, now that it seems that Google will remain undaunted by the petition, those users will need to find a new RSS reader, and Facebook, considering its internet notability and still-growing status, could be good candidate.