Adam Fisk › Comments

I always wonder why people say Friendfeed needs twitter. It doesn't. As more and more people bail on twitter, FF will pick up the slack; its "share" messages are equivalent to tweets, and users can still interact with twitter users via Friendfeed anyway, by creating imaginary friends if necessary. - David Adam

I'd love to see everyone move to FriendFeed for the exact reason you highlight: FF works and Twitter doesn't. As a developer, I don't want to develop on Twitter because it breaks. Same reason I hardly ever did anything for Mac OS 9. The FF APIs are also much broader. - Adam Fisk

Jesse is wrong, but he's right. http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/2008... - Ontario Emperor

Onnecessarilytario, great post - if you notice at the end of Scoble's interview I tried to get some information from them for developers. I'm not saying developers are jumping ship in masses yet, but it is very much something Twitter needs to watch out for. It would take just one or two developers to jump ship for the whole vessel to sink. The API needs to be top priority for Twitter. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

The message previously was to Ontario - Twhirl messed up the name, sorry! - Jesse Stay from twhirl

People keep citing that Twitter is failing because of user-facing features in the comments, etc. and that's not what I'm saying. Twitter could completely ignore the users, and it wouldn't affect them as much as it would not paying attention to the developers. As I said the majority of their traffic comes from the API - it's to their benefit to ensure the API is spot clean, and sooner than later. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

Onnecessarilytario? I kinda like it. :) I suspect that developer freezes on Twitter development wouldn't hurt things too much. What WOULD hurt would be when the Next Cool Thing comes along, the developers are asked if the Next Cool Thing will support Twitter, and they say, "um...we'll get to Twitter Real Soon Now, but first we have to cover FriendFeed and Jaiku and Plurk." - Ontario Emperor

Jesse, would you say that API stability is even more important than architectural stability/uptime? - Ontario Emperor

Jesse, I understand where you're coming from. However, everything ties into the database, and that's where they're having scaling problems. It's like a car. When the engine dies, it matters little that the tires are brand-new and perfectly inflated. - Dewald Pretorius

the share form on friendfeed is hard to edit. I find it easier to write text on twitter still - Noah David Simon