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Apple sued four times in two weeks over iPhone 3G speeds - http://digg.com/apple...
"my iPhone 3G works awesome. Fast 3G, 95% reliability for me (sometimes it'll auto switch to EDGE if inside a large building). I have zero problems, and I'm on the o2 network in the UK."
- alexander horre
Bale Goes Nuts On The Set of Terminator Salvation - http://digg.com/celebri...
"Without Bale, Terminator Salvation wouldn't have been made. Bale gets into his role. He's an actor, not a 'movie star.' When you have someone goofing around behind the set, and Bale notices that - it means Bale can't get in character. He loses all emotion of his role. So he flips out. It's like someone is tapping on the window outside a business meeting, and the CEO flips out on him. Bale has all the right to be upset. It's HIS movie."
- alexander horre
Twitter Not Loved In Europe - "Twitter = time waster!" - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"Twitter is an amazing service. Frankly, it beats digg to the punch more often now; especially if you follow the people of industry that feed news to those that use Digg - I see it first. It's a more interactive RSS feed. When you organically built the people you want to follow, you build conversation -- the very thing e-business is dying to capture -- around news links, blog posts. Twitter isn't about constantly saying "I'm eating dinner." It's not simply "what are you doing." It's more "What are you doing with your information you want more of?" I follow industry leaders in my career. I follow my close friends. I follow interesting people my friends are following. You built a community that shares great news, commentary, and frankly, through the nature of early-adopters, building the next big thing in search: real-time search."
- alexander horre
Social Media Experts are the Cancer of Twitter: Nuke 'em Now - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"Buried."
- alexander horre
Interesting. On Twitter 600 followers went away, but on friendfeed I gained followers. Discuss why here:
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1. Friendfeed is FAR more resistant to noise and "flooding." If I tweet too much it hides most of them.
- Robert Scoble
..because it's easier to keep up with you here. :)
- Daynah
2. There's an expectation here of conversations that isn't over on Twitter. It's like the world has decided that you can pimp your blog and stuff over on Twitter once or twice a day, but if you do much more than that then they'll go away.
- Robert Scoble
Aggregation. Friendfeed reduces the time spent on micro-netsocial activity.
- Pascal Barbier
3. Friendfeed's participants are at least 17x smarter than the stuff I see on Twitter. So, people here are expecting to learn something. At least that's what I feel. Twitter seems like many people just want to see stupid stuff, cause that's what they put into their streams.
- Robert Scoble
3. It seems like FriendFeed was designed much better for conversations. Twitter was designed more like a news feed. If I didn't use TweetDeck, Twitter would be impossible to use.
- Shawn Hickman
maybe Twitter was more noisy and less structured for their liking?
- Chris Farrugia
To tell you the truth I haven't been on here much at all to know why this would be better or not. I guess it would be a wise investment to delve a little more into this place maybe ;)
- Nathalie
Because twitters @replies blocking is complete pants. It needs the ability to block @replies from individuals not be an all or nothing setting. No offense but I really don't want to see Scooble's 50 @replies a day.
- Chris
(You called someone not smart. You gain FF followers anyway.)
- Rodfather
Robert, thank you for your good-natured, good-humored generosity. You have single-handedly created an engine of a gift economy. You are continually giving away everything of value that you learn, to everyone who will listen. I've learned about countless innovative new products, and their creators, from you over the years. I don't know what you get in return for all of your sharing. Your forward motion creates a relative wind of blowback from a few not used to your energy. What would they do without you?
- David Newman
Essentially, FriendFeed does everything Twitter does and more. Whilst there will always be a place for Twitter as a headline based attention directing service, it lacks the capacity to develop the conversation to the extent that is possible here. As the social media is, surprisingly enough, about being social, services which truly encourage conversation are likely to be the most successful. On top of that, Twitter is somewhat fickle.
- TheLovableRogue
Yes, agree far less flooding on friendfeed. This would have been at least 4 tweets from you thus far were on it Twitter.
- Dean Clark
It is easier to drink from the firehose on FF... unless you turn on realtime. ;)
- Steven Byrnes
No offense to you but it might be because you sometimes act like a jerk with others on Twitter I have noticed and that for sure stops me from interacting you on Twitter at times.
- Tejas Patel
Not everybody is in a good position as you are of talking and seeing the smartest people, they still need to talk and they talk the non geek stuff.
- Tejas Patel
I think followers are like the economy. It has ups and downs, but it has an upward trajectory. It's the shaking of a tree, and leaves fall off. It's nature. Just two days, ago, I lost 11 followers after the tweet: "Testing the last.fm iPhone app in Newcastle." Not that bad of a tweet. But I only have almost 100 followers for sharing good links. 11 followers is like 10%! It's ebb and flow; cutting off the dead weight.
- alexander horre
Because twitter is suspending spammer accounts.
- Christian Burns
I think Christian's explanation, that Twitter is suspending spammer accounts, makes the most sense why one would loose so many Twitter followers today.
- Vinko
i only see @replies to people I follow, but i almost clicked unfollow after the journalism rant. RT's from people i don't care about, followed by your response ... c'mon man. most know you are a good journalist. i enjoy your journalism style, but I don't care about people talking shit to you. either you pissed off 600+ users with the RT's today or twitter did a spam sweep. if you continue to use RT like that, I'll probably unfollow you on twitter/FF and just read your blog.
- Gerard
I think that most people on Twitter might be turned off when their phone beeps a couple hundred times a day because they actually follow active people. They were expecting to be able to once and awhile send a reply back and not hear anything - well obviously, they were wrong.
- John Bellone
Assuming you're still around 25K followers, that's 2-3% - could well be statistical noise.
- Rob Kramer
Twitter is no longer the early adopter core, as a result they're trying to find tools that work better for what they want. Might as well have fun on friendfeed now :-). It might also have been fake accounts that were removed.
- Richard A.
Spammers' suspension. I agree with Christian, Vinko and Sam
- Alexandros Georgiadis
Friendfeed is a smoking jacket, and twitter is a wet tshrit contest.
- Stephen Breen
More followers left after I wrote this post. Yes! What's weird is friendfeed has continued to go up.
- Robert Scoble
Maybe you have a leak that you need to patch on twitter? LOL j/k
- Colide81 (James)
Every time I go back to twitter it feels so "2 years ago". FF is still on the early stages, where the real conversations are and real people following each other.
- Martin Añazco
It's much easier to organize large flows of info on FF and follow conversations and topics, so I think the volume of tweets can be an issue for those just on Twitter-esp if they are not twitter savvy and able to organize their incoming tweets. And many of the things you tweet about stir comments which would explain why you are gaining popularity here.
- Kelly W.
its easier to talk here :)
- Zafarali
here we go again...o_O
- sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>
You can plant a seed on Twitter and then watch it grow on FriendFeed - FriendFeed is like a nursery where information and ideas can blossom - whereas some of these ideas are just lost in the noise of the twittersphere.
- Chris Loft
I follow Scoble on FF only - but I follow his likes/comments as well. His tweets weren't leaving any room in clients for more personal twitter friends.
- Paul Arterburn
During what period of time? Overnight?
- Curt Mercadante
Twitter was having some issues with follow/unfollow. Though, you DID tell people to break off if they can't handle volume
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Since Twitter allows you to change your name, it looks like people are unfollowing you, but if you look at your follow, they appear.
- Shevonne
FriendFeed is better for tracking high-volume (or "noisy") folks thanks to the lists feature. Perhaps people wanted their Twitter stream a little quieter but still wanted to follow you?
- Sarah Perez
duh, it's cuz you dissed twitter in favour of friendfeed, they just listened to your orders sir and migrated: that's the power you hold over us. And yes ~ you tweet too much
- sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>
Your shares on Friendfeed are meaningful to the people rather some random thoughts on Twitter
- sirishkumar
@scobelizer for ol' times sake...;o)
- sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>
Because you keep saying "Discuss why here:” and pushing people to FF. BTW, are you tracking the number of followers you gain/lose each day such that you know 600 is statistically significant?
- Ken Sheppardson
they were disheartened when they realized you weren't scoobydoo
- mal
I have the opposite goin' on .... weird
- Charlie Anzman
same for me, Charlie - lots more Twitter action at the moment...
- Iain Baker
I don't keep track of the number of followers I have on either service. Not what I am here for.
- Andru Edwards
I always feel like I have to keep up with Twitter because stuff just falls off. FriendFeed feels less so but I still am getting used to it.
- William
My guess? People are tiring of Twitter and moving to FF. At the same time, Twitter is probably killing off more accounts it thinks are "spam."
- NikeRAS
maybe the penguin effect when that one guy took off - others followed...
- mal
Twitter flakes out and randomly dropped followers.
- Christian Anderson
On FF I can preemptively hide any tweet that has no likes or comments. Also I can hide any conversation after I've got my money's worth from it, so it doesn't keep popping up to the top while I'm reading other people. Twitter just isn't flexible enough.
- Deborah Fitchett
You probably already know this, but on Twitter Scoop there is lots of discussion about TWITTER cleaning out spammers today. So may be a large part of your unfollows today were really this. I
- Bill Romanos
Bill very interesting revealation
- bcultral
I also think there is a rise in the use of people doing mass follows and then getting auto follows, waiting a few days and then unfollowing, so as to boost their own stats. Sad but true.
- James Ketchell
maybe a bunch of the 600 you lost moved over to Dr. Phil?
- Thomas Hawk
600 of your followers died, Robert. We don't live forever you know. The new followers are their kids, trying to figure out where their parent spent all their time on the computer.
- Jack&Cleo
+1 Thomas! LOL
- Susan Beebe
I think there has been a sweep of spammers across the board today, its hard to tell for Robert as he has so many tweets, but if you use http://tweeteffect.com/ on most accounts you can see a definite trend.
- James Ketchell
Twitter's easy and simple UI make it ideal to keep up with close friends while painfully easily to loose context of the not-so-close friends' updates
- charmgene
The analytics issue with Twitter - http://yoast.com/twitter...
Hrm, interesting.
- alexander horre
EU to Microsoft: Bundling IE With Windows is Evil - http://mashable.com/2009...
It's strange that every operating system has their own browser bundled with it.
- alexander horre
To people who don't like high flow twitter accounts, sorry, you won't like me. I'm following 20,000 in TweetDeck and I'm going to talk back.
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that's for sure
- Colin Clark
And thus the reason I don't follow Robert on Twitter... Last thing I want to see is half of 20,000 conversations.
- FFing Enigma
Yeeeeea! Let's the lottery begin :)
- Sasha Kovaliov
do you have a life outside twitter...?
- Joe Buhler
Tina, but you won't see them unless you are following the people Robert replies to.
- Sasha Kovaliov
Just turned my full twitter stream on in IM. went away for 20 minutes to have a phone conversation; came back to 500 messages! still, i enjoy reading the full stream when I have time to do it. it'll get filtered again on Wednesday, I'm sure.
- Karoli
That assumes every reply starts with @username which isn't always the case
- FFing Enigma
He does have a tendency to retweet ;) but that's not that much noise.
- Sasha Kovaliov
I prefer to follow Robert on FF - in fact I prefer to follow most ppl on FF. Those I follow on Twitter are usually those who aren't on FF.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
BTW, Happy birthday. I can't think of a better day for someone to do what they love. Enjoy!
- Michael Fidler
Oh, I'm perfectly fine in TweetDeck ;) And I have no probs with that. On frf - I put everything into one feed - too lazy to have to click one more time ;)
- Sasha Kovaliov
*Hide all Scobleizer tweets unless they have likes or comments*
- Mitch
Mitch: works for me. If you have time, all the hidden tweets are at the bottom of my screen. Personally I don't worry about a ton of tweets. friendfeed hides most of them anyway, and makes you already click on them to see more.
- Robert Scoble
I follow as many people as I think will offer me good info. I may only be able to read it a few hours a day because of my paying gig, but when I do it keeps things interesting. Too much is never enough! :D
- MarkCarras
I get the same uneasy feeling of seeing "47 more" on Friendfeed as I do seeing "1000+" in Google Reader, so I just choose to hide all the heavy twitter users (and also unread counts in Reader).
- Mitch
They'll get over it.
- Bwana ☠
Robert, Have you written a post on different Twitter tools, e.g. TweetDeck? Compare real-time stream vs FriendF thread feature.
- Martin Lindeskog
Martin: I would be VERY interested in an article on that. Someone should do it.
- MarkCarras
Agreed. Which of his 20,000 doesn't deserve a reply? Enough said!
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Hey, just curious - do you know what your talk-back rate is? That is, your percentage of @ replies you respond to? I admire your prolific communication, but don't see how you can possibly talk back to all. Maybe some aren't saying things you find worth covering?
- John "Boz" Handy Bosma
John on friendfeed it is close to 100%. on Twitter? Probably 30% but only because people get pissed about my noise there (but not here).
- Robert Scoble
Someone once tried to insult me by saying "you tweet like @scobleizer does - all noisy!" and my reply was "no, I tweet twice as much as he does daily about considerably less of interest - because I answer all of the stupid folks who @ me too rather than just the interesting ones - but I take it as a compliment when you say that, as he's the one that taught me the value of listening on Twitter... so cool!" I don't think that was the response he expected. Ah well. :)
- Lucretia Pruitt
Scoble. You use Tweetdeck. Trying to make the switch, but not being able to read the tweet in the popup notification like I can in Twhirl is a big thing. Thoughts?
- alexander horre
Don't worry. I love high flow twitter accounts. It's what keeps me interested in the Internet
- Bryce Roney
The Art of the Re-Tweet - http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_e...
This is how I discovered Logic+Emotion; and, his breakdown is what I figured out to grow my tweeter grade organically.
- alexander horre
What Do Economists Have in Common With Garbage? - http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
Freakonomics
- alexander horre
The Message or The Medium: Debate Now! - http://experiencematters.criti...
Awesome.
- alexander horre
The Collective Is The Focus Group - http://experiencematters.criti...
co-creation in value networks; the beta platform is what works to grow users, grow revenue, but revenue through what? Most CPM is in the toilet for websites.
- alexander horre
Make Your Own Tabloid - http://experiencematters.criti...
I'm going to integrate this!
- alexander horre
Priceline's Rapid Response Prevents A Groundswell - http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_e...
This is simply amazing.
- alexander horre
Twitter limits searches on its site. What's up with that? - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"The twittersphere is heavily taxing for its servers. With the multitude of applications and websites calling on the API; good progaming dictates that limitations be put in place. And, if you're following the right people, twitter is better than Digg."
- alexander horre
Tonewoods exhibitionARTS Margaret River’s new Foyer Gallery was alive with many guests at the openin - http://margaretriver.yourguide.com.au/news...
Amazing job, JP!
- alexander horre
TweetDeck Readies New Release, Slimming Down & Adding Services - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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I'm using TweetDeck too. I wonder how Twhirl will respond. Loic Le Meur, in a video with me, said that they are completely rebuilding Twhirl to be a better client than TweetDeck is. One thing I noticed is that TweetDeck makes my system really slow and sometimes hangs my system. If that continues I'll have to give it up or just use it on a second system.
- Robert Scoble
While they're at it, I suggest they add some following/followers management, like sorting, batch follow/unfollow, one-page lists etc.
- Alexandros Georgiadis
I still enjoy twhirl.
- alexander horre
I'm switching to Tweetdeck TODAY. Guess I'll see if i like it better than Twhirl.
- Jennifer Windrum
Loved twhirl, and still keep it installed, but rarely use it anymore. I use iTweet.net in a browser, PockeTwit on my Mogul, and Tweetdeck on the desktop. iPhone, I'm still dabbling; I don't use an iPhone very often, and rarely for Twitter. Tweetdeck for Friendfeed is something I requested quite some time ago, and was told way-back-when that it was in the works...can't wait.
- abacab
from fftogo
I experimented with Tweetdeck, Twhirl and Google Reader side by side for a few days for monitoring Twitter feeds, and GR was the clear winner for me. The cleaner, more minimal and more functional the interface, the better. And with GR I can manage all my feeds from all sources under one program.
- Sean McBride
For another approach, checkout Twittastic (http://twittastic.net/), a new, interesting twitter client.
- Alexandros Georgiadis
Love Tweetdeck for when I monitor / really participate in Twitter. Though for idle tweeting / replying, the sidebar in Zenbe is perfect.
- Matt Frog
TweetDeck rulz!!!
- Dieter Schwarz
This is one version I especially can't wait for. ;-)
- Jesse Stay
I can't wait for tomorrow! I stopped using the TwitKit extension for Firefox when I realized how incredibly useful TweetDeck is. (Which saved up the sidebar for FF in real-time, heh.)
- Chris Charabaruk
I find mac's expose/spaces an indispensable tool for managing screen real estate hogs like tweetdeck. don't know how pc users live without it. Have tried others but keep returning to tweetdeck for it's clean, consolidated view of multiple aspects of twittering. Will have to try in GR.
- Mike Elliott
Mike - I find that I can scan much more information in GR than in Tweetdeck. I am curious if your experience differs.
- Sean McBride
Sean, I don't see Google Reader and TweetDeck as competitors at all.
- Louis Gray
The simple fact: Tweetdeck uses a single monolithic window to store everything. If you don't have that contiguous space available on your screen then it won't work for you. The *ahem* beauty of Twhirl is that each window is a self-contained movable palette and you can move them anywhere and arrange as you like, depending on your screen real estate.
- Glenn Batuyong
Glenn, while true I found the multiple windows to be confusing. If you're on a dual monitor mac set up where you can have set apps follow you through spaces it's doable but personal preference I think.
- Mike Elliott
Sean, I'm a heavy GR user and I'm always trying to consolidate. When I tried to pull RSS feed for all updates it kept giving me the wrong feed. I was able to import my @replies and DMs but I would obviously need all the updates to be usable. And then there's the issue of jumping to a different screen for tweeting. How do you resolve the going back and forth?
- Mike Elliott
one obvious limitation of tweetdeck is the "rate limit exceeded". I'm not a heavy twitterer by any means but doing a few simple searches brings up this error a little too often
- Mike Elliott
Any release date known?
- Aad 't Hart
Tomorrow.
- Chris Charabaruk
@Mike Somehow I got the feeling that's always been a problem on Twitter's end; they're the ones that limit how many times you can hit the API in an hour, aren't they?
- Chris Charabaruk
Rate limit exceeded is a Twitter issue.
- Louis Gray
Need multiple account support. That's a deal-killer for me.
- Jeff Ventura
Multi-account support would be nice, yeah.
- Chris Charabaruk
Yes, Twhirl can do multiple accounts for multiple services and you can monitor all of them... I would probably consider TweetDeck if they could offer a single column with multiple row view. Most monitors are wide so you can afford to stack app windows side by side, not one above another.
- Glenn Batuyong
I can't wait to get my hands on the newest version. I just started using Tweetdeck last Saturday and although I'm not a power user I love it. Some of these features sound really awesome and should make Tweetdeck much better then it already is.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Chris & Louis - That is some Twitter ignorance on my part. Good to know though.
- Mike Elliott
Louis - I see Twitter and Friendfeed as collections of feeds, which I store in Twitter and Friendfeed folders in GR. Under my Twitter folder, I can quickly scan my Twitter feeds, see the number of new posts to feeds, and then click on particular feeds (say, Tim O'Reilly or a Semantic Web search feed) to quickly scan new posts. One click on a post takes me to the original site. When done...
more...
- Sean McBride
Louis - at the moment I have 540 unread items under my Semantic Web search feed under my Twitter folder in Google Reader. Scanning and processing those items under TweetDeck would be quite a chore.
- Sean McBride
I never see all the tweets during a day. I don't even try to go back and go through them. I just get the ones that I can and move on.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Mathew - if I didn't make an effort to prioritize the information that is flowing through my mental space, I would feel like I am wasting my time. I want to focus on the most important information, not on a random chaotic flow of what is often trivia.
- Sean McBride
@Sean- did I read correctly that you have a RSS feed for all of your tweet's? If so, how do you manage that?
- Amani
Amani: to subscribe to Twitter feeds in Google Reader (or any other reader) just go to the home page of the tweeter in question (like http://twitter.com/timoreilly) and click on the RSS/Atom icon at the right side of the address bar (in Firefox, at least).
- Sean McBride
@abacab where do I find PockeTwi?. I am so sick of ceTwit
- Thomas Ho
http://code.google.com/p... and follow @PockeTwitDev on twitter if you like, too.
- abacab
The world-wide-talk-show host: Loic Le Meur - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
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I have the best job in the world. I get to have conversations with smart people out in sunny San Francisco.
- Robert Scoble
cloudy san francisco =)
- alexander horre
No snowy San Francisco??
- Roberto Bonini
Partly cloudy today.
- Robert Scoble
Good video, Loic is so much better in these types of relaxed informal interviews instead of being pushed into a corner by Arrington etc.
- David Lloyd
Has Facebook Demoted Applications News Feed Stories? - http://www.allfacebook.com/2008...
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It's baffling how facebook has so many employees, and makes so many idiotic mistakes.
- alexander horre
Emirates Launches World's Longest Green Flight - http://www.fastcompany.com/blog...
Mike, remember the ad we saw? Ding, Ding.
- alexander horre
Fringe: Every Sighting of the - http://io9.com/5102278...
awesome.
- alexander horre
Interview With Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Products - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
adapters and shapers
- alexander horre
Jizz In My Pants - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Satire at its best.
- alexander horre
Pictured: Toddler who got a set of car keys lodged in his brain through eye-socket... then recovered - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
What.
- alexander horre
Apple’s new Macbooks: flop or fiasco? - ZDNet - http://digg.com/apple...
"a few things! "But we also got another costly addition that no one was asking for: the machined-from-a-single-block-of-aluminum unibody structure. When was the last time you picked up your notebook and thought “I wish it weren’t so flimsy!" I always wish for a sturdy and thin notebook - macbook was the answer. And HP sells cheaper notebooks as well as comparable models to Apple. Honestly, the macbook has become a luxury product, in respects to high end Vaios."
- alexander horre
How To: Disable Google SearchWiki from Firefox and Opera - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"This feature is only enabled via the .com domain. All other Google domains don't have it."
- alexander horre
Facebook Etiquette: Five Dos and Don'ts - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"However, people should refrain from polarizing items such as posting wild party pictures. Sometimes I can never understand how people can post a picture of them smoking a huge bong with a pile of weed on the table. People don't realize even though you've selected only friends to view...a friend of a friend can click on a tagged picture of him in that album, and then click 'next' to see all the other pictures...including you smoking that bong."
- alexander horre
Facebook Etiquette: Five Dos and Don'ts - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"This is pointless. If everybody followed this article, Facebook would cease to exist."
- alexander horre
"'Charlie Rose' by Samuel Beckett" - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Man, hilarious!
- alexander horre
The Screens Issue - Multiscreen Mad Men - Advertising in a Post-TV World - Interview - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
Bulls eye!
- alexander horre
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