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Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

Sweet_Home_Improvement — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:34:44 -0000

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Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

Kashif — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:41:38 -0000

Yestereday, I registered my account with FriendFeed. But its much complicated than what Twitter is. I did not open that site again!

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

mathewballard — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:33:00 -0000

I know I'm a bit late on reading this, as everyone on Friendfeed was talking about it days ago. But, I do have a very simple simple comment...ROFL!!!

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

Laura Norvig — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:01:54 -0000

jhayes, if you happen to see this follow up comment, you CAN do exactly what you want simply by setting up "imaginary friends" and bringing your friends feed into Friendfeed. Any RSS feed can be brought in. http://friendfeed.com/setti...

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

AlexSchleber — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:38:12 -0000

Robert, give people some time to adjust, the mainstream adoption of Twitter has only just begun (that is EARLY mainstream after the early adopters). Many people play with Twitter for a few hours and conclude its a waste of time for them.

Also, would you agree that Facebook's new design turns it into somewhat of a FF already (while having a bit more of an actual friend social graph - though not by that much anymore...)? Theirs and FF's, MyBlogLog's, etc. aggregation designs are still quite clunky and visually inelegant, to the point that, you're right, it gives most people somewhat of a headache...

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

me — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:18:59 -0000

Friendfeed and Twitter = mini-blogs for people who can't handle blogs.

Because Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal and other are just too hard.

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

Taylor Sherman — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:11:04 -0000

Even though I know you're doing a reverse psychology trick on me, it won't work because...

Those things are actually true.

Just because we have a technology doesn't mean we need to utilize it. More queries and so on aren't necessarily a good thing. Twitter is great because it's simple. It's text messaging for the web.

There's this old theory out there that says that as time goes on, people will use richer media. So instead of reading books, they'll listen to audio, and instead of audio they'll watch TV. That's the out-dated theory that the video phone will take over the world (I don't even have a webcam).

But with SMS (and Twitter), that media richness seems to have taken a step back.

Another reason I haven't jumped on the Friendfeed train is because nobody I know uses it. Barely anyone I know uses Twitter, in fact. They're still on Facebook and instant messenger.

You know, any old people I talk to seem to all be convinced that all the highschool and college grads these days "understand computers." I don't even try to convince them that most of them barely understand MS Office.

Interesting how the further away you are from the technology, the less distinctions you can make about it and the people that use it.

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

squidoo200 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:23:05 -0000

I'm still waiting for all my friends to join me on FriendFeed so I have to go visit them at Twitter.

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

jhayes — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:35:11 -0000

hmmmm ... from my still in moderation comment from yesterday

"Maybe there is another service that already does this?"

I find this today.

"Social Inbox essentially allows folks to aggregate not only their web services but also their communications services such as AIM, Gmail, Yahoo and AOL mail into one place."

Interesting, looks like I've got yet another social service to take a look at.

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

Patrickometry — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:15:33 -0000

I love this list. FriendFeed took me a while but I now GET IT. :)

I do hope more users cross over. I get tired of seeing mostly tech centric content. More people will mean more variety... and that will be a good thing.

Great post Sir Scobleizer.

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

Igor Poltavskiy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:44:57 -0000

Sometimes minimalistic Twitter,sometimes luxurious Friendfeed.Good choice.

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

kelly — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:37:51 -0000

You are right on the dot! The simpler or lesser "features" Twitter has, the easier for "stupid" people like me to use! And all without a Features FAQ (although a short FAQ may help some others.)

P.S. There is a Twitter add-on (or whatever you call it...a service!) that allows you to post pics and videos on your Twitter page but I can't remember where it is, or its name!

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

Claire — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:46:19 -0000

I had heard of twitter a lot as a blogging tool before, but I didn't realize it could do this much. I guess I'll just have to sign up for an account myself. Thanks!

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

Jarkko Kniivilä — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:24:40 -0000

I won't comment on FriendFeed as I haven't had time to familiarize myself with it but between the microblogging (almost *nano*blogging) Twitter and feed aggregating FriendFeed is Google's Jaiku (http://jaiku.com).

I find Jaiku an indispensable forum for like-minded technologists. For me the core set of features Jaiku provides are just perfect for the effortless publishing of my views, emotions and happenings. While Jaiku headlines/titles (or just jaikus) are generally limited to 140 characters (via SMS or the web), comments can be as long as you need if you input them via the web interface (mobile and regular). Basically you can elicit discussion from your followers with a terse message and only follow up with lengthier opinions if the issue seems to interest people. I think this balances the noise vs. substance quite naturally if you follow an etiquette where you try to refrain from long comments until somebody has first commented your headline (in effect waiting for the subject to "sell"). Somehow without a true comment feature I find Twitter a bit like graffiti, or rumor-like, which to me feels like impeding the exchange of views. If it worked more like instant-messaging with a single line of discussion, I feel I could grok it way better. Now the split view between peoples related tweets is just confusing.

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

briefepisode — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:00:46 -0000

I'm on FriendFeed. It's kind of ugly. And.... I'm out.

Really, a troubling part of FriendFeed for me is that I'm not really sure where all the comments and favorites all reside.

Twitter's API means lots of web apps and blogs can capture, redistribute, re-broadcast, and ARCHIVE tweets I write.

Many friends on FaceBook have no idea that my status updates are tweets.

FriendFeed seems more like FaceBook in that it imports a lot but doesn't export a lot.

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

David Murray — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:04:34 -0000

What's FriendFeed?

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

jhayes — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:05:47 -0000

I've just started using both, but I've been using Facebook, myspace, AIM, email, etc for a long time. Twitter is just another of those type services, FriendFeed is an aggregator of most of those services. Using FriendFeed IS like trying to drink from a firehose, but once you figure out how to use it and turn the volume down it works great.

The problem is convincing people to use it, or at least sign up for it. What I would like to see with FF is a way to request individual feeds, like sending a request to a facebook user that would allow me to grab their facebook updates into my FriendFeed list. This would present problems, but it would allow me to use FriendFeed to aggregate the information I want without having to convince my friends to join.

Maybe there is another service that already does this?

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

David Bennett — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:43:24 -0000

Serious stuff,

I'll cancel my friendfeed account when 140 characters feels garrulous.

Friendfeed is a stand-up buffet meal after a religious service.

Twitter is a city center railway station at rush hour.

Pownce is a unisex smoking club.

Sad about Pownce.

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

AlternativeMedicineSource — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:23:37 -0000

I'm not using twitter because I think it's just meaningless, well I find this post and maybe I should consider to use twitter

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

David Jackmanson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:09:01 -0000

"There are 59 services that can be brought into FriendFeed. Very few services do the same for Twitter."

Any service that provides an RSS feed can be brought into Twitter via Twitterfeed. I pipe about a dozen of my online services into Twitter via Twitterfeed and use it and Facebook as my main social networking hubs. I have a FriendFeed account, but it is secondary

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

Rk — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:07:48 -0000

You have listed most advantages but yet wonder why FF is not as popular as Twitter ? All your reasons make you a friendfeed guy ;-)- you just complicate and list too many things. A twitter guy would have said put your entire post in 140 chars - ff is too complex,twitter is simple.twitter was early,hence more users/popular.

also,twitter has just one goal-what are you doing? comparing ff to twitter is like comparing an apartment to a swing (ha ha,i fail to find a better one)...in apartment you can cook in kitchen,in swing you can only swing - kitchen is not for you. in bathroom, you can bath, in swing you can only swing, bathroom is not for you...

My thoughts.

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

John Haydon — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:13:09 -0000

Found this post through friendfeed...

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

Jared — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:36:36 -0000

So I'm fairly new to Twitter. I've enjoyed the feeds of @scobleizer and @timoreilly; is there any way to display users that BOTH of the above are following?

Just wondering...

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

laprensa66 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:00:23 -0000

Truly amazed that so many people thought the article was praising Twitter over FF. You have taken away from this article the exact opposite of what was said.

If a gun was to my head and a friend (who never really 'got' social media) asked in order to catchup what my advice would be?

Leapfrog twitter and start on FF.

(That friend was really me)

Re: 10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not

WendyMerritt — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:30:37 -0000

I use friendfeed to enhance my Twitter and my Tweeps Twitter experience. I don't think you need one or the other...you need an integration of several things. My Twitter communicates with my friendfeed, Digsby (multiple Yahoo IM's, AOL, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ and facebook IM), sets my facebook status, updates my myspace page, sets my Skype status, post RSS feeds, scheduled announcements and blog posts. Leverage your time by letting all these wonderful services work together. You don't need one or the other...LOVE THEM ALL!

blessings,
Wendy