Allen MacCannell - Comments

Micah: I'm already following you! :-) - Robert Scoble

is a like the equivalent of a comment? And by follow you mean on FF or on Twitter or on both? - Sean Scott

Sean: not really because if you comment I can see if I'm already following you. And, yes, I mean on FF. - Robert Scoble

Hello :) - Brandon Roeder

That's really awesome of you, Robert! - Harald Nesland

Beau: I'm already following you. - Robert Scoble

Awesome. Hi Robert :) - Andy Parkinson

It's an ugly world when Scoble stops autofollowing. - Michelle MacPhearson

Did FriendFeed make you say this? - Social Nerdia

No love for SEO experts? AWESOME. - Than R

@robert i think we're already following each other on FF. :P - Sean Scott

Didn't send that one from Twitter. ;-) - Kathy Fitch

Are you openly admitting to being easy? - Lydia Sugarman

I am not a bot, I am a human being!!! - Daniel Buckley

@stevenmhall likes this -- thanks for your work. and the great green picture - steven

Nothing more to say - Mel Buckpitt

I already follow you, but interesting experiment - Cam

I just gave you "High Five"! Check it out: http://bit.ly/5sHMZ You should send me a gift back ;) - Louis Gray

✔ Thx for ☛ Follow :-) Good idea. I do not speak to those things anyway - RetiredTeacherD

SocialNerdia: no. - Robert Scoble

really? neat... - Jorge Chapa

Follow Sunday? ;) - Ideas At Random

LOL ... this is fun. - Richard Laksana

At least I'm not the only one who thinks SEO isn't everything. - Leon Bacud

Hmm… I may just be more active in FriendFeed. - Evan Hindra

The above is an actual DM spam I got today. :) - Louis Gray

Leon: if you abuse SEO types they send Google Hate your way, which, by the way, is the same thing as Google Juice. - Robert Scoble

neat idea! - Aloke Fernandes

So we get to be in the cool club? Yay! ;) - Vicky Teinaki

watching this list expand is more fun than anything on TV right now. - steven

But Robert what will all the Bots do without your input. - Pentaxfan

This is fun! lol. Follow me! @thehenry - TheHenry

Is Google juice akin to Google Kool-Aid? - Stefan Holmes

evangelizing aint ya - Luka

I think Robots get a bad rap ;) - Robert J Taylor from iPhone

What's this FriendFeed thing? Back to my safe, comfy home on Twitter. - Dan Grossman

I expected more comments, oh thats the idea :-) shhh everyone - Andrew Nimick

Is there something to be gained by following someone on both FF & Twitter? - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

WT?? @pogmohoin needs to be loved again.. now how did you do this cleanout again?? Australia Out.. - Pogmohoin

I'm already in but i wanted to get in the fun! - Fee501st

I just noticed that Scobleizer unfollowed but am glad it was for the above reason and he unfollowed a lot - Allen MacCannell

Cannot wait to see you (again) at Gnomedex after that sensational news panel at #140conf. You set the bar high for yourself there ;) - Maya

I am all flesh and bones Robert :D - Antonio Montero

Rob: FriendFeed is better. - Robert Scoble

Louis, NOW I know where all those are coming from. Time to blacklist you ;-) - Jesse Stay

Friendfeed FTW! - TheHenry

Not a bad filter at all. - Robert Anderson

Why would you want to follow me,i have nothing to offer but my ears to learn. - Paul Downing

Hi Robert, I'm a real person and would love to be followed. - Steve de Mena

What if the spammers, SEO experts, the bots, or the social media experts all comment here? - Andrew Trinh

Word up - Charlie Haims

Scoble smash Twitter spammer like Hulk! - Peter Hodges from iPhone

Dare I? - Spidra Webster

and then I will comment on whoever follows me here... - Alpay Erturkmen

Louis, I recently got the "high five" DM spam, too. So off-putting! - Robert J Taylor from iPhone

I just need to spend more time setting up FF so it is my friend that intercepts all my social media content but only from who I want to read! - Pentaxfan

Friend feed seems like mainstream to most serious ones? - jibzy

Friendfeed has it's strengths once you get it setup - Chris

@robert whether or not FF is technically better than <insertsocialnetwork> its really a question of said network reach - Sean Scott

Once a week I go through my followers and delete most/all of the spammers, but I only have like 50-60 so it's not hard to do. - Allison Warnock

Let's hope the spammers and bots and etc don't attack us here on FriendFeed next. I won't tell them if you don't. - Louis Trapani from iPhone

Sean: well, FF has better search, grouping, real time, a better community, and more. - Robert Scoble

Sean, you have to start somewhere! - Pentaxfan

Really Robert? Will you follow me here or Twitter - Kevin Krewell

Last time I checked I was human. - Luke™

What, even if I've got these hot videos where I ... Haha, not really ;-) - littlegingerkid from iPod

Kevin: here. - Robert Scoble

In two years on Twitter I have never used any bots nor even tried to sell anything. I always look at profiles personally before following anyone and have never been concerned with how many are following me. - Gord Young

That's nice of you. - Michael Owens from iPhone

Why? - Stefano Maggi from iPhone

Yea, i dont want FF to get has "known" has twitter, I'm selfish - Fee501st

Mainly on Twitter myself, but everything updates to here + I tie in a couple things through here to Twitter. - Chris

Will you actually read my posts? - Kimber Scott

oh really :D - Sinem Co

See, cross posting that offer to Twitter is misleading - Kevin Krewell

It is fun to watch my follower ## on Twitter go between 200 and 230 it is a constant battle to see what I post. Just not that interesting at times! - Pentaxfan

Interesting project! Please follow us @streamfile :) - Kimmo Gläborg

Checking in here...hope we continue to follow each other, Robert! - Cathryn Hrudicka

Even if we write in Turkish? - Emre Güneş

@robert again not arguing with you. I think better community in your POV but from marketing / UX pov not yet. - Sean Scott

thank you - - pat o'bryan

I'm pretty sure I've commented here before Robert, but you don't follow me here or on Twitter. Not that I want you to under just for the sake of it... - Gurpreet

Today's secret password is "cheese". - Andrew Smith

...only if you actually find my tweets interesting enough. - Gurpreet

It's Unfollow Sunday. Just purged all the bots, spammers, SEO/social media types from my own Twitter account. I never autofollow. Still got the "high five" DM spam, though... - Dennis Jernberg

Nice when you integrate Facebook and twitter and multiple accounts so you can read all at one place. I have to say I use Seesmic to read posts more than FF. - Pentaxfan

bit bucket... here i come :) ps: scoble, what if we just "like" your post ;) - simran

@pentaxfan of course. not wanting to start a FF vs Twitter debate. just saying the glasses through which we judge better or superior are diff based on our interests. Plus in the end FB will take it all :P - Sean Scott

This is a sly way to get us to sign up for FF :) - valb00

Shhhhhhhhhh - candy from Nambu

@valb00 said it! - Dennis Jernberg

According to my following list, Scoble was the second person I followed after joining Twitter. A long time ago that was. - Stephen Sclafani

UX tip for FF. Be nice to be able to click on the comment link at the end of a comment stream. Having to scroll back up on these long threads breaks flow. - Sean Scott

Kimber: wait and watch http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... and see if I like any of your posts. I read a LOT and if you are posting interesting stuff I'll probably like it. - Robert Scoble

Sean: click twice on the time stamp and you'll get a window of just this chat and you'll see a comment entry area at the bottom. - Robert Scoble

Kurt: maybe! - Robert Scoble

You will end up following me anyway. They all will. :) - Matt G

But you're already following me here on Friendfeed, Robert. How is Twitter going to be different? - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

FriendFeed is better, deeper, yet Twitter works better on the go - Majento

There's a lot to like about FF, except it needs a bigger community. Twitter is like the iPhone - for iPhone it's all the applications, with Twitter (and Facebook) it's all about the number of poeple. - Kevin Krewell

following me is good stuff :-) - N.G. Gordon - RadarSync

@Sean, that is why we are always looking for new and improved apps to operate at a better level with more consistency. Take it easy! I'm off to bed for my 5 hours of mediocre horizontal time out. - Pentaxfan

Hi Robert, you are obviously going to be following a lot more people. Thanks. - Rob Zachritz

And I return. (Just cleared my account so I can start afresh with friend lists) :) - BeauGiles

Is this an experiment? - Theresa Shin

so will you follow me too - aybars badur

Theresa: no, I do this from time to time and always find interesting people to follow. - Robert Scoble

FF hmmm about that... - Philip Small

Robert, you have lost a lot of followers. I have been watching all night. - TheHenry

I don't get the appeal of auto-following. I for one would not want thousands of updates showing up in my timeline. - Alex Knight

Twitter -ly ♪ and FriendFeed -ly ♪ livin' in perfect har-mony ♪♪♪ LOL Why can't we be friends ♪♪♪ - RetiredTeacherD

Just created a corporate FF account so you can follow our corporate Twitter at http:/www.twitter.com/senderok - Plug-in with anti-phishing icons for the inbox and photo business cards in the header pane - SenderOK

I'm here I'm here! :D just curious, what do you have against SEO and Social Media experts? - Celia

Really? BTW I'm just a regular geeky gal. - Teresa O

TheHenry: and I will lose even more this week. No biggie. I don't define myself by who follows me, especially if they are there just to get a follow back. - Robert Scoble

@Scobleizer is a man of his word - Charlie Haims

Zomg you has to follows me!! I r teh most important persons here!!! - Tom Vohs from iPod

Okay Scoble I'll bite... - SalvadorM

Joining the experiment - Jan Schultink

robert, you are a "pearl" under all the blogger,.........and i'm sure, you know that!!! sunshine and light to you from france, martin - martin

I'm awake and listening! - Graham Lawrence

To all those new to FriendFeed, remember to add your Twitter, blog, Flickr, YouTube, and other accounts so we can see all your stuff! - Robert Scoble

...and I was wondering where is my one-lost-follower...here on FF. - Danica Radovanovic

I have nothing to say - Paul Denlinger

@Paul, I was going to say that. - Justin Yost

You should follow a game designer, Robert :) - Federico [Kurai]

Wait, does this mean I need to spend more time of friendfeed? - Shea from iPhone

Federico: I'm already following you. Roldano: I'm already following you too, but don't let it get out. - Robert Scoble

Shea: yes. This is where I spend most of my time! - Robert Scoble

That's encouraging - Keith - @tsudo

I cannot recommend following me, I rarely have anything interesting to say. - Shaun William

What's the catch? - Rory Conway

We're already facebook friends. And I think friendfeed friends too. But FF just hasn't hit critical mass yet. It'll be cool when it does. Nice job throwing another rock at the hornet's nest! :-) - Dan Becker

Rory: the catch is I might like one of your posts and then you'll have to deal with my other friends. :-) - Robert Scoble

I'm glad to know that you are still interested in hearing from us :), I'm @tsudo - Keith - @tsudo

scoble i like you man, but you're crazy - patrick

I applaud your mass unfollowing, but following back via FriendFeed comments seems inefficient (says me, the efficiency consultant). - Marina Martin

Dan: well, that's what Twitter gets for treating me like a lame early adopter that isn't needed anymore. - Robert Scoble

Cool - I'm in. Thanks Robert - from the land down under. - Monte Huebsch

Marina: you haven't discovered that FriendFeed has groups yet, have you? - Robert Scoble

patrick: crazy like a bat! - Robert Scoble

I need to better utilize FF groups. - Justin Yost

Ouch Robert! Telling it like it is to Twitter - Keith - @tsudo

Do you never get SPAM in FF? - RobinDotNet

You might regret that :-) But thank you - Stephen Baugh

Hi, i had created a new website name http://bit.ly/Od5Xx now please guide me in increasing traffic - mohammadhassam

Robin: I have only seen a handful of spams here. They are easily blocked and there are other defenses against them that I won't talk about here. - Robert Scoble

Are we not allowed to comment if you are already following us? - RobinDotNet

Are all those SEO types you're unfollowing now following me?! - Dennis Jernberg

@Justin, try this for a starting point for using groups http://www.knowthenetwork.com/blog... - Keith - @tsudo

Okay )) - Лёша

Yet another comment, from an ordinary twitterer not a spambot. :-) - Joshua Lee

is this a bait to get more people to use friendfeed? ;-) - Ritu

Robin: I like all comments. I can see who isn't following me because their icons are white. Yours is blue. - Robert Scoble

speaking of spam, twitter seems like it's about 90% spam lately - Derek Chilcoat

Robert -- that's good to know. Those people are insidious. Will you ever tell us how to block them? - RobinDotNet

It'll be interesting to see who follows the leader to @schoolpr. - SchoolPR

The SEO experts, bots and social media experts don't have good content, and FF makes their crappy content easy to hide, and ignore, too. - Andy Bakun

Thanks @Keith - Justin Yost

Andy: bing! - Robert Scoble

Robert, was that an endorsement of bing? ;-) - RobinDotNet

SEO experts endorse bing. ;-) - Joshua Lee

@Justin (1 more) my friend Ken did a great post on groups as well http://www.changeforge.com/2008... - Keith - @tsudo

Why, oh why is my first thought to respond with "FIRST?" - Jonathan Hardesty

I'm not a bot :-) - Nir Ben Yona

Jon: I want to respond with "penultimate." :-) - Robert Scoble

Even me??? - Kevin Arth

Can't imagine this won't end in a big mess... - Justin Howard

Nir: I know you aren't a bot. That's why I follow you. - Robert Scoble

wwooww :) - Emre BAHADIR

So far not a spammer has shown up. - Robert Scoble

commented! - Jeremy Lane

I think scoble is on Twitter just to get people to read friendfeed. :-) - Joshua Lee

Joshua: no. I'm here to talk about the 2010 web. :-) - Robert Scoble

This is some elaborate mind game, I'm sure:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Can we put some restriction on bots . means use some software who block them - mohammadhassam

Joshua, i liked your Bing comment :-) - Majento

and the 2010 web is.... friendfeed! - Joshua Lee

Thank you, Sir. I'm impressed. :) - Kevin Arth

Joshua: the real time web is only one part of the 2010 web. - Robert Scoble

Ah, I think you may already be following me, but just in case... - Ranger Craig

Nice - Fred Morales

Thing I don't like is that FF doesn't have a very good topic when the primary line is directed at twitter. There may or may not be a link to something after FF part. Which means FF becomes a bit of a treasure hunt. I like FF for commentary but I hate the initial post. - Justin Howard

SPAM. :) - Jason

Mona :-) - Majento

Mmmmm. Bacon. - RobinDotNet

Erik: I would even follow Mike Arrington, yes. :-) - Robert Scoble

Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer? - RobinDotNet

what are some other examples of 2010 web, Robert Scoble? - Joshua Lee

Count me in :) http://www.twitter.com/stanley... - Stanley Tang

Robert: Thanks mate, interesting and probably efficient idea. I'll do the same for quality content, tired of those "I just used whateveryoucallit.com to gain 300 new followers right now!". - Nir Ben Yona

Hi Robert, I had to do the exact same thing to nail all the twit spam I was getting. Hope you get it all sorted! - James Brown

Even as we sit here, my iPhone dings with new follow e-mails from spam/marketing people. Sigh. - RobinDotNet

Stephane: LOL, probably. I took this line from Chris Brogan's "Twitter Etiquette Guide". - Nir Ben Yona

Robin: on Twitter, though, right? - Robert Scoble

wow been fascinating watching this exercise :-) - Peter du Toit (S.Africa)

So this is like a captcha? - Dylan Verheul

also on twitter? - Sinem Co

The joys of not being internet famous means I can check out followers personally, block where required and I've only ever got about 2 DM spam. But with the volumes that Robert gets, it's obviously not possible. - Rachel Clarke

I think Twitter needs something like captcha to keep the bots to a minimum, IMHO. - Dennis Jernberg

Nope, I'm just following here. - Robert Scoble

But feed your Tweets in here and what's the difference? - Robert Scoble

OK, thanks :) - Sinem Co

Hi Robert, I've been following you quite some time, and what you do here is very open and brave too, congrats! - Kaan Bingol

This must be a plot to move everyone to FriendFeed ;-) - Masatake E. Hori

Masatake: plot #458. - Robert Scoble

Great thanks for the offer and follow - Stephen Brown

Masatake: I think you're right. :-) - Joshua Lee

Robert -- yes, on twitter. It seems the more you tweet, and the more people you communicate with, the more spammers follow you. Hoping for auto-follows I guess (I disappoint them in that regard.) - RobinDotNet

Good way to filter, you know the spammers don't actually read anything or participate - Justin Luey

Derek: why don't you see http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... and see just how many people I touch. - Robert Scoble

What is the utility of being "followed" by someone who doesn't tweet and who follows thousands? What do they do, sit at their terminal and watch the tweets go by all day long? - RobinDotNet

hi Robert u r already following me how r u? - Ali

I dont get it. - Andru Edwards

yeah? I think most spam bots have the AI to search for such threads! - Rohit

Derek: or how many people I interact with. Check here: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... 28,000+ comments. - Robert Scoble

oh, hi there! - Jeremy

Gaith: doing fine, gotta work on my videos, but thought I'd do this instead. - Robert Scoble

Robin: I'm guessing the mass followers rarely take a look at the flow - it's about being able to talk about the numbers - Rachel Clarke

No - Michael Fidler

Yes - Michael Fidler

follow me on twitter please... - Özgür D. Cyric

First day on Friend Feed and Robert Scoble is available. What a welcome.... Carey@holisticdds - Carey O'Rielly

What will you do when the spammers/SEOs infest Friendfeed, as they will, or do you believe this is better crowdsourced and will be able to hold against the hordes? - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Rachel -- But numbers alone don't mean anything. Are they that shallow? That must be a stupid question. - RobinDotNet

Is this going to be the 'most-commented-ever' post on Friendfeed? 240+ already! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Aaman: FriendFeed is FAR more defendable against spam than Twitter is. - Robert Scoble

and how would this benefit people who follow Robert Scoble? - Seyfi Erol

Mahendra: probably not. - Robert Scoble

That seems like a good idea, but I think you're already following a lot of these people - Carlton Prest

Seyfi: why don't you follow me and see how it goes? - Robert Scoble

I've gotten 4 follow e-mails since my first post here from people I don't want to follow. Do the bots start running right around midnight? - RobinDotNet

Mahendra, you're not following the threads in Russian (that's my only hint) :D - Micah

Robin: oh yes. But I'm never sure what's worse. the people who just want to talk about the numbers or the people they may be able to impress. - Rachel Clarke

Aaman - Friendfeed doesn't make link-tracking easy, so it's less interesting for spammers to infest. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Is this a test of interaction or more likely a sort of audience verification? - Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh: it is what you want it to be. For me I followed you. - Robert Scoble

If twitter is noise, and FriendFeed is conversation, Robert Scoble followers are their own discussion. It's like using an entirely different website. - Carlton Prest

Rachel, that's a good point. Is Facebook the same way? I joined that and suddenly got all these people I've nothing in common with who want to be my friend. Creepy. - RobinDotNet

@Micah: Oh, good I don't read Russian! :) - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Derek: heh, yeah, I am watching this, among other things running across my screen. - Robert Scoble

Robin: Facebook is the same but I think to a lesser extent - it's harder to find people I think. But still got a load of friend requests that I ignore as I don't know them - Rachel Clarke

I already do. what i mean is if we don't keep FF, Twitter limited to our interests, wouldn't it be garbage we already try hard to get rid of. Or how far can we extend our interests in life or amount of information we consume? - Seyfi Erol

Derek -- I mean people I really have NO connection with at all. I've only friended a couple of people I work with, and 2 other real friends. I'm getting friend requests from people I don't know at all. - RobinDotNet

Seyfi: you haven't discovered FriendFeed's groups and lists yet, have you? - Robert Scoble

I got a Russian-speaking follower on Twitter. I didn't follow him because I don't understand a word he tweets. - Dennis Jernberg

Mahendra, And I've been told http://translatorize.com has successfully translated all 6000+ (oops - update: 7000+) comments http://friendfeed.com/ideali... from Russian to English :) - Micah

Thanks Robert! - Jan Ignatius from iPhone

Seyfi: you can separate your friends into lists. That way you can keep your quilting buddies separate from your football ones etc. - Robert Scoble

I'm the spammer u follow alrdy HA! - Rich Weaver

Did you know that Facebook has started selling parts of itself to the Russians? At end of May, they sold 1.96% stake of Facebook to Russia's Digital Sky Technologies for $200M. - RobinDotNet

Robert: I shouldn't have underestimated you. You probably have started much longer comment threads on Friendfeed before. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Mahendra, Robert, I agree, FF has been very good at keeping out junk - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Micah: Uh, wow! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Mahendra: I have. I gave away $5,000 once and got more than 1,000 comments on that. But that cost me a lot of cash. Can't afford to do that again. - Robert Scoble

DST is run by Alisher Usmanov who is closely tied with Putin. You feel ok to that, but re-read the company's user agreement where it says it can share all of your info with third parties. Of course, it's irrelevant to this thread, but I thought it was interesting. - RobinDotNet

Robert: I think your Twitter follow is worth more than that? - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Even if it's a lame comment and I don't actually say anything? Woohoo! FF looks interesting anyway,,, - Matt Harward

Yes, Matt! :-) - Robert Scoble

FF is interesting assuming the topic is FF... and/or Scoble's next devilishly clever stunt to generate FF comments - John Hardy

John: there are lots of interesting topics here on FriendFeed. Did you know you could search by them based on number of likes? Click "Advanced Search" and try. - Robert Scoble

John: Nope. Twitter's 'bout Trends, FF's 'bout Friends. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Very bold, I like it, are you going to keep the people you follow under 2000? - Joe Dawson from iPhone

Tell me the newest best way to use FriendFeed! - Shoichi

I'll not tell anyone ;) - PaperDoll

I hope I am interesting enough to be followed! lol - Carlton Hackett

Some of the reactions to what you're doing are pretty interesting, Robert. - Ha3rvey (F please!)

Social media experts? What are those? - Alasdair Munn

But what if someone doesn't want you to follow them :) ... It's not me.... - Amit Nangare

lmao - Andy Ghozali

woww! that is a lot of comments. - Sumanth Kolar

Joining bandwagon. - mwydro

Yo Robert: a man has to do what a man has to do, so one surfer to another: go for it! - Geer

Here here! A good cleansing is good, now and then... Starting fresh is the way to go, get all of that nonsense out and maintain a core group of people for solid conversation! - Brian Partridge

Great taking the tour w/ you, Levar Burton & @VegasBill during CES 09 at the Atomic Testing Museum. I would appreciate the follow back. Thanks Robert! - Chris R

There is change in the air... - Zack Brandit

Chris: I'm already following you, no need to beg! :-) That was fun times, wasn't it? - Robert Scoble

You've got to admit anyone who's on friendfeed instantly gets more exposure since it nicely imports people's public @ reply's anyway? - Matt Randles

I'm a ff fan;) - Cheray from iPhone

Thanks for following back on Twitter Robert. Cheers from Las Vegas! - Vegas Bill

I'm pretty sure we're friends here, only just wish there was a easy way to check... and if there is, that some one will let me know.... - Grant Bierman

this is such a classic move! well played. - laura

So why can't SEO people be tech as well? Actually requires a good tech aptitude. - Paul M Evans from iPhone

Make sense, Scoble :) - Grant Laird Jr

Just out of curiousity, why are there fewer spammers and bots on FF compared with Twiitter? Is it because they haven't discovered FF yet? - Sally Church from iPhone

there are occasionally spammers on FF but I think they mostly get handled quickly vs Twitter where more than occasionally clusters of spammers just follow each other... - Shannon Clark

Choose wisely :) - Özkan Altuner

Go FF its the Best - Robert Wheeler

followww meee - Thomas Christory

Scoble-plicity .-) - Del_

I use TweetLater to vet new followers. Helps get rid of spammers fast. - Bob Morris (polizeros)

Wow! I've never seen so many people comment on Friendfeed as much as this! - Armand

Yo! peteryared on twiter :) - Peter Yared

Your biggest fan and follower in Cambridge, UK. Thanks for the DuoFertility video. Great as ever. - Philip Baddeley

Fantastic, I want to be followed :-) - Antonio Correnti

Sally: I don't explain spam defenses in public. I don't want spammers to figure them out. But there are quite a few defenses against spam here. - Robert Scoble

Refollow me on Twitter! @carloscomputers - carloscomputers

nice one - Ken Post Jr

I was surprised about the spammer comments, until I started getting female nude model followers and I'm a women. Maybe a nude male model but not Sparkle or Hootie McBoob - Corrine Pearce

Corrine: hope you don't see that here on FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Why are you doing this? You have one of the best listening audiences on twitter! Is there a point to prove that we will post here or go to wefollow? - David Cole

Now those not on FF will miss this one;) - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

David: actually that's not true. Most of the Twitter audience I had has moved over here. - Robert Scoble

I'm intrigued and will watch with interest -- and hey, you're always interesting. Well worth the follow! - Don Tamihere

real-time on FF is awesome - nchenga

David: and I can prove that. Twitter's audience has become less and less engaged lately. - Robert Scoble

Wow, powerful shift by Robert Scoble, I'm really interested in seeing how this works for you Scoble. I slept through all the big news here tonight. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Always up for your social explorations Robert. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

And you're not even halfway through the unfollowing process. :) - Ken Brady

wao, let's good. - naokits

Interesting experiment. This is probably one the most commented feedfriend threads in history! - Menno te Koppele

Plus, David, if you all are listening, you are listening because of my ability to find cool stuff. Mostly that's been because of FriendFeed over the past 18 months. Now I've seen how ascerbic Twitter's spammers have gotten on my accounts. - Robert Scoble

agree, it's an interesting experiment. - nchenga

Menno: actually it's not. There are many 1,000+ comment threads here. - Robert Scoble

Here's a search with all 1,000 comment threads displayed: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Interesting. This is going to boost 1000 egos for sure :-) - Freddie Benjamin

So will it be a matter of just trying to say ahead of the spammers by jumping from one early adopted social network to another? - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

JP: no. I am not leaving Twitter. I AM, however, deleting all their accounts so I will no longer be passing them juice. - Robert Scoble

I wonder how will your FF homepage look like after this. - ahmet bulent

Does this make you anti-social media? - Cory Brown

To follow commenters from here on Twitter will be a lot of work for you Robert. Or do you have some magic tool that helps? - Tibor Holoda

Robert, how many of the 100k do you think you'll still be following when you are done? - RobinDotNet

~~~> Robert!! Follow me back again. [a] I'm a real fan of the @Scobleizer... and [b] I'm much nicer than some of these sassy bloofers. ;) - Kim Sherrell

1,100 - Robert Scoble

That's good to know. - George Hall (Australia)

So what if you have all 58k + comment on here? And you have to keep everyone! And your plan is foiled, sir. Okay give or take 10k for the neglected abandoned twitters and the spammers. Btw, you're already following me on both twitter and here. But come on, you're not really. : / - Lise

That's cool. I am finding the spammers too much to manage these days myself. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

I promise I want tell them - Noel Kelly

Because I can't keep myself from doing math, that's 1.1%. - RobinDotNet

Lise: I see you a few times a day, but you're right. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

Are you trying to make a point about FF v Twitter? I have spammy things to say about my amateur photography, potential homelessness, and run-ins with public-run health system in the US. Isn't all Twitter spam--just spam you want? :) - Dean Hall

the auto-refresh on this thread is mind-blowing, fun to watch - nchenga

Do you ever worry about SM burnout Robert? How do you pace your self? - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Interesting to note many of most commented threads are in languages other than English. Can we suggest FF has a better international appeal than Twitter? - Kaan Bingol

Good idea, as you say, stop juicing up the spammers - it'll be interesting to see the stats once you've finished. - Andrew Piggott

Dean: your Tweets aren't spam. I might keep you. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

I only followed people who were interesting to me, otherwise it is like trying to find a needle in a haystack of brain dumps. - Daniel Durrans

Exactly. So I expect to be cut. And considering I'm in a crowd of close to 60k, it'll be the same thing. - Lise

There should be a counter in front of the comments... - Willem Karssenberg

okay seriously ? - Asankhaya Sharma

What sort of comments do you want Robert? - travispuk

Lise: actually no. On FriendFeed I can absorb quite a few more people than on Twitter thanks to Groups. - Robert Scoble

a good cleansing is wise once in a while :) Power to the (real) people. - Benjamin

Travis: I'm already following you. - Robert Scoble

Lise: and because FriendFeed's search engine is better here too. - Robert Scoble

Robert, yeah I know. Thought you might have meant for your secretscoble twitter account ;) - travispuk

It's kind of like a giant SM break up Robert. *Oh the hearts you are breaking...* - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

I'm fairly selective about who I follow and I follow so maybe you will follow me back! - Richard Cunningham from iPod

Robert, care to explain how you use groups in this kind of context? Because I don't get the point of following people who are then placed into a "I don't read this much" kind of group. How do you use groups so that you're (1) not overwhealmed, and (2) actually read what people are saying? - Ian Betteridge

How many people do you expect to end up with, Robert? What is a reasonable number? - Lise

You don't have to follow me on Twitter. I think the FriendFeed party palace is mighty fine. - Josette from fftogo

(Not that I'll probably see your response, btw - something at the bottom of 350+ responses is effectively buried until FF has better threading tools. Which I'm sure it will, some day.) - Ian Betteridge

@Ian I believe that it may come in Google Wave. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

@Daniel - ditto, and for me it is generally development related also. Robert - I know you have to try and keep up with everything going on in the social media space, but I'm always surprised when people follow so many others as it must be extremely difficult to find the wheat in amongst all the chaff. - Donald Matheson

Robert: I did not know about that search trick. Thanks! - Menno te Koppele

Why? - Scott Hanselman

looks like a lot of comments - Rory Partalis

Ian: a "I don't read this much" kind of group is awesome for serrendipity. Also, anyone who I find there who is high value gets quickly moved to a smaller group. - Robert Scoble

What? Are you saying you're not following me already...? ;-) - Jarno Peschier

Lise: on Twitter? Less than 2,000. I can't follow more. - Robert Scoble

Done. :) - Smeerch

Jamo: I am already following you. Scott: why not? I am already following you too. - Robert Scoble

Robert, it might be a problem for me re-gaining your following as my tweets are not 100% English only (whether that means trying to speak English or no English at all ;). How do you deal with occasional non-English tweeters? As that's clearly a noise for you. - Tibor Holoda

if only twitter were as engaging as FriendFeed has become, and as instantaneous as things like this comment thread, then maybe I would use it more. Hence why I'm all for unfollowing who you conceive as uninteresting; and if that includes me, then so be it! - Nick Soden

Tibor: I just skip over most of them. Sometimes I translate them to see if I was right. - Robert Scoble

It is my hope that I provide you with something as interesting as what you provide me with. Either way, I will continue to peruse your posts with interest. - Absentee

hmmm - imran

Hi, I'm still newish to this social media thang - but good on you for taking a stand. - Jus

Do you prefer night owls? Because what about all the poor people in SV who went to bed at a decent hour and missed your post? Bummer for them, huh? - RobinDotNet

I'm back from picking my wife up at the airport and ran across this on my way back to sleep. - nuBound CEO - Mark

shhhhh - Luigi Filograna

Robin: heh, all the real geeks in SV are still up. - Robert Scoble

Interesting idea. I firmly believe SEOs are working day and night to figure out FF. - Ian Ceicys

Ian: I bet they are too since FF is starting to pull better on Google than Twitter is. - Robert Scoble

I am such a sheep. @markmeyerphoto - Mark Meyer from iPhone

I have nothing interesting to say, don't follow me. - burc sahinoglu from BuddyFeed

what about me? ... sniff - Andy Ghozali

Me me me ;) - Alemsah Ozturk from iPhone

looking for owls? - Dave Senior

Well I am out for the night. Good luck on your mass un-follow Robert. I look forward to your report on the results. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Robert, this is looking like a long thread already. :) - Robert Miller

Andy, Alemsah, and Dave, I'm already following you. - Robert Scoble

Do you consider FF to be less spammy if you are trying to find your new Twitter "friends" here? - Dušan Šimonovič

Dusan: are you a spammer? - Robert Scoble

lmao on here you are, not on the big T tho nevermind I will follow you there too, been a fan.... - Andy Ghozali

why? - takmaz

bold and yet gutsy move...love the trending topic already! - Feersum Engine

:) - Ruchit Garg

Follow on FriendFeed or Twitter? :P Or Google Rader? :P - @LarsenTweet

Türkçe ne diyor arkadaş ? - Sinan İŞLER

The wild and woolly blogosphere is replete with all sorts of good stuff. Hard to follow 500 people, let alone 1000. I applaud you for trying to take the reins. - Jack B

hey there - deadmanwriting

And will you unfollow me if I send a DM ;)? - Sudar

I don't get it - Sheldon Levine

Qbat: I'll follow here on FriendFeed. Sheldon what don't you get? - Robert Scoble

Sudar: no, if you send me DMs here, that's good. - Robert Scoble

How long is the unfollow process going to take? And do you think FF will have as much noise as Twitter? - Duc Nguyen

So it's Twitter DM that you don't like? - Sudar

Sudar: right. - Robert Scoble

I'll make one comment and raise you two more. :) - BRҰANSAҰS from iPhone

And will you follow me? don't know if you ever have, but I am following you on twitter. - Jus

Hey, Thanks for following me - Michael_techie

Would love your company, Robert. - Daniel Zarick from iPhone

Even worse is Twitter DM spam, of course. - Dennis Jernberg

It funny you put spammers, SEO experts, bots, social media experts all in one bucket. What are you implying? Btw, I'm none of these... - Peter Chee

.. and it works!! Just got a mail saying Robert is following me now... :) - Sudar

Peter: I did that to piss off the SEO experts. :-) - Robert Scoble

This makes me realise that posting from Twitter as opposed to "to twitter from FF" allows the Twitter stream to grow on the back of FF comments ! otherwise not : as in my case - what do you think Robert ? FF to Twitter ? Or FF aggregating all your tweets ? - Nicholas Paul Gordon from iPhone

Nicholas: shhhh, you are discovering my secrets! I'm doing more and more from FriendFeed lately. - Robert Scoble

I comment and you follow me. Its totally worth it - Arvind

Do I have to follow you too? :) - Mobilepax

Arvind: even better I was following you before. Mobilepax: no. I really don't care about followers. Inbound is more important than who is listening to you. - Robert Scoble

and does that mean I have to write in English from now on :) - Mobilepax

Awesome. I'm the 439th commenter. :D - Jhay Rocas

Mobilepax: no. I translate interesting posts to English. - Robert Scoble

More than 400 comments in about 2 hrs. Not bad. I wonder if there'd be nearly as many twitter responses/mentions. - Franz Binder

Franz: no way. Not even close. - Robert Scoble

Nice one - it's cool that you give friendfeed (and all the commenters of course ;-) much kudos. - Alex Vermeule (@alexve)

If you just follow everyone in this thread, won't you just wind up with noise from 'engaged' people. I mean, does this solve the problem? - Christopher Harper

Good thing its 4am and my car alarm went off, otherwise you wouldnt follow me! I had to look up a video online how to break the key fob apart becuase aparently its battery leaked and was self activating the panic switch. Damn VWs! a replacement key is only like 150 bucks!! - Charlieray

Missionary: no. You have not discovered that FriendFeed has groups and MUCH BETTER search. - Robert Scoble

Its funny that if you say "SEO" on twitter its an instant 10 followers - Charlieray

A friendfeed promotion experiment? - John Mandia from iPhone

What is a comment? - Meriç Dağlı

I'd rather follow you on Friendfeed, Robert. Your tweets get cross posted here anyway, and there's a much greater sense of engagement in that conversation than there is over at Twitter. - Andrew Terry

John: no. Meric: you just made one. - Robert Scoble

John: I've been promoting FriendFeed for 18 months. Where have you been? - Robert Scoble

FF rocks :o) - Cowan Group

Everyone that "follows" you really does know you love FF. So did you build a tool to follow everyone back that comments on here or are you seriously going to manually follow people back? - Peter Chee

Theres 451+ comment here, do you really follow *everyone*? - Fajar Nurdiansyah

woohoo! I'm in :P - Tim Bergman

Because I am up at 1:20 a.m. PT, why not... I must be your target audience then. - Georgiana Comsa

It must show you how many people enjoy engaging with you Robert, with the number of people posting here. - Steve Farnworth

Amazing to see the comment thread to this entry expand constantly in real time. - Christian Bolstad

Peter: I've manually followed everyone on this thread so far. - Robert Scoble

Peter: although to be fair I've already followed quite a few people who have commented here. - Robert Scoble

Hi, you are already following me. My solution to get rid of spammers on Twitter is to block them, that is what I do. If everyone started blocking them, I think things would improve - Asgeir

Are you going to sleep tonight, or watch the fun?:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)

is that enough to get followed? - Ouriel Ohayon

do I accumulate credit, maybe towards an afterlife? You are already following me :-) - Anindya Chatterjee

really anyone? :D - Francesco M.

What about the SEO experts who accidentally find this feed? - phil baumann

Robert, but you're following commenters here, not on Twitter, right? Not that i care about Twitter that much, as for me it's just a pipeline. FF and FB are conversational platforms for me, or the places i hang out these days. - Tibor Holoda

Aaman: Sleep? some of us are just starting the day. We're waiting for the US to go to sleep so we can talk about you ;-) - Rachel Clarke

Spammers being blocked doesnt do anything as they are hoping for that 1 in 100 hit of someone clicking that link, eventually they get banned and create a new account. - Charlieray

the term SEO expert is a crock of shit - Charlieray

like that's gonna work... - thinkingpot

I hope you like hype machine loved tracks. - Neil Godfrey

FriendFeed is better only if U want feedback and have the time to check it out. - Marko Dvornik

Hello from the UK... - robkeynes

Marko: not true. It's better because it has very little spam. It's better because it has a better search engine. It's better because it has comments and likes. It's better because it's an aggregator. And more. - Robert Scoble

you don't have to follow back. but i'll take the chance to say great work with building 43. - Alexandre Gamela from twhirl

where's the 'hide button'??? :-D - Max Kava

Massimo: right up top. Heheh. Alexandre: thank you! - Robert Scoble

After 6 months out of the social media loop I came back to a whole bunch of follows that I either couldn't remember who they were or why I had followed them - how can that be relevent? So, I culled my follows back to less than 200. I'm now just looking to find the signal amongst the noise. - Colin Walker

What about FriendFeed? Is there any @notsecretscoble too? - Ludwik C. Siadlak

Friendfeeding for Scoble to follow me while on vacation in Montauk. There is something wrong with me. - Mitchell Schneider

:) - امیرعباس

Mitchell -- you just don't want to miss the fun. - RobinDotNet

robkeynes -- nice to see you up and about - RobinDotNet

Ludwik: no, because here I can just start a new list of users. - Robert Scoble

Well, this has been fun to watch, but it's almost 2 a.m. and I have to be very smart tomorrow morning, which is easier when I'm not too tired, so everyone have a great [whatever comes next in your time zone]. - RobinDotNet

Robert, I'm trying to understand this follow/unfollow strategy you are applying as Napoleon Bonaparte on a battle field ;) Interested to know the result - Thierry R. Andriamirado

I really do think the way Twitter has changed in the last few months, with all the media attention, certainly begs for it to be used differently now. - Nicola Quinn

SEO what?! :) - Kobayashi

Wow that's a whole lot of people commenting in the last 2 hours, Rob - How many of the new people you are following from this list are NEW to friendfeed? (estimate?) - Roy Herrod

i'm new! - Luigi Filograna

Roy: 40% - Robert Scoble

Does this constitute a comment or are you looking for some insightful commentary on the state of new media? ;) - Iwan

40%? This must have turned out to be one of the biggest promotions in FF history, even if it wasn't intended that way. BTW, I'm new to FF too. - Dennis Jernberg

guess it's good to clean up the list once in a while. - Yan PHUN

Ha ha, nice.... So any major ramifications from the mass unfollow? - Alistair (alpinefolk)

Alistair: other than losing about 1,000 followers so far? No major ramifications. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I'm coming out with a project in the Continuing Medical Education field in the next weeks so if you are interested, I wouldn't mind if you will follow me :-) - Marco Fabbri

Won't tell anybody, specially Seo people, ssshhhh..... - Giorgio Burlini from iPhone

No comment ... :) - Charlie Anzman

Too late. - Alex Gonzalez

You had me at don't tell the spammers... - Sean Kelly

I think it's a hoot. Now I'm wondering whether to reverse my recent move towards following more, not less. I do believe that from my experience so far FF is more attuned to building/maintaining community than is Twitter. - Des Walsh

Great move Robert - I like it a lot - Robert Davies

Des: on FriendFeed you can do both strategies at the same time. You can follow a lot more in one list while following even fewer in another. - Robert Scoble

Des - Once more people re-engage in the conversation here, they'll realize the continuing outright potential of Friendfeed. I still some here before I read my e-mail - Charlie Anzman

Hi Mr Scoble, I'm with you (but on a smaller scale) I unfollowed about 150 users on Friday, felt good! I pretty much hang out in FF now at my home page and my groups - Lee from iPod

wow...just wow :) Robert, you have many fans !! - Hayk

Good luck on hiding from the bots, they have ways of finding people.... :) - Chris Holm

well, who am I to refuse such a nice offer? here I am!!! - niccolò vecchia

Good to hear! I have only ~2000 followers, but I can't follow more at the moment due to Twitter's follow limit rule. - Martin Lindeskog

I can't resist. skeptical, however. - thinkQuick

Robert maybe the effort to get to 1 million is too great?? LOL Look forward to being in special company - Wayne Mansfield

lol! ;-) - auro

Following for the sake of it - Rudi

follow, unfollow. it's all work... - punkwithgun

Great way to test the chemistry between FF and Twitter. I like it. - E-Advocate Network

Robert - I'am definitely not a spammer when it comes to broadcasting anything to people, who doesn't want to hear it :) but I do sometimes respond (mostly on twitter so @reply) to some tweets not aimed on me, but that's what everybody actually asks for when publicly broadcasting anything. - Dušan Šimonovič

Lovely. - Kevin Montgomery

Scoble is a superstar :) - Peter

Woohoo. :) - mjc

Enjoy your tweets - Keith Humphreys

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto. Himitsu o shiri tai. (Secret secret. I've got a secret.) - Rich Puskarich

Welcome! - Bob Stewart

Shhh...don't tell anyone but I'm neither of those (the spammers, SEO experts, the bots, or the social media experts,) though, I like the heck out of the concept of this thread... - Vincent Wright

@euaneggs :) - Euan Rowlands

Good idea about the unfollow. It was an interesting experiment whilst it lasted but given your lifestyle I'm sure most Twitter messages just passed you by. I never DM'd you however, it was nice to think that I had the option if I wanted to. Anyway I've been on FF for ages now, and what I need is a good FF app (for pc), any ideas anyone? - Nick Bristow

Nick: I just use a browser with FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Only 530 comments so far? Come on people you are not even trying. - John Cooper

FIRST... well almost - Rhys Amos from iPod

oh,i'm 538? - M∂hmood

hello hello! - May Wong

I am really curious to check the result of this experiment... - Alessandro Galetto from twhirl

why are you doing this again ? - startup ticker

To confuse you. - Robert Scoble

LOL - nice one Robert. - Darren Rowse

Lol! that dude definitely sounds confused :-) - Freddie Benjamin

:-) well done - Johni Fisher

Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me. - Gilbert Harding

Nice! Subscribe me!!! ;) - stakhov

cool~ - kang

promise? - David Semeria

well i'm only bemused, is that close enuff ? - startup ticker

so quick~ - kang

I'm interested to see how this turns out for you. - Brandon Eaker

talk about noise! - Miles Media

550 commants!!!! wtf? - Rob Sellen :o)

Good to know. Scoble is a superstar. - jaspio

@Rob Sellen, did you see the comments on the most recent ffundercats podcast entry. http://friendfeed.com/ffunder... Over 1000 in a very short period of time. Although I expect that this post will also get up to those levels. - travispuk

Ah Scoble allways busy. - erwin blom

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