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Twittering Steak Truck

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The Me Room

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Seatle at Night

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Seattle by Day

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Now a New York Times Bestseller - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/now-a-n...

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Congrats - Karma Martell

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hey - that my friend is awesome news :) - mike "glemak" dunn

Nice guys finish first. Period. - Anne-Marie McReynolds

Chris, we busted our butts to get this book two days before crossing back over the Atlantic. http://www.winebrandsblog.com/2009... None of the local stores could find the copies that the computer showed that had in store. Finally went to Amazon and express shipped two copies so we won't fight over them. The first two chapters show that the effort was well worth it, this is the real thing. - randulo

W00t when your ready cmon out for a visit and I'll be your dental trust agent - Greg Birch from iPhone

Congrats Chris. I'm picking up a copy today. I'll let you know what I think of it later. - Jeunelle Foster

Nice. congrats - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Chris I am reporting back that I am on chapter 3 where you start off with Robert Scoble being a bad boy talking smack about Microsoft. So far that book is real hard for me to put down which means it's a good one. I'm trying not to pair you two off in a dual where there can only be one (highlander). I wonder which of you is the true "bad boy". So far the book is a winner :) - Jeunelle Foster

Thanks for all the kind words. @Jeunelle - There can be more than one. : ) - Chris Brogan

Congrats Chris. I've got a copy yesterday and reading it here in Czech Republic just now :) - Vlad Hrouda

Congrats! - Jfavreau

Great!! - N.G. Gordon - RadarSync

Chris Brogan

Snapshot

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You know I don't get you people. I can take a photo of my ass and nobody will comment or like the photo but Chris here takes a snapshot of himself doing lord knows what and everybody will like and comment on this shit. You all are some pathetic losers. lmao - Jeunelle Foster

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That's odd Jeunelle. Because I believe this has been up 4 days, and yours was the only comment until now? Chris is a transparent guy, and he chooses to share what he does. BTW - no interest in your proposed photo alternative. - Louis Gray

Louis I am aware of Chris and what he does and I do follow him and subscribe to his blog and I hope you can sense the humor and BTW I am not offering any proposals to the public so you are mistaken :) - Jeunelle Foster

BTW, this is in the Green room for the Dr. Phil show - seems pretty interesting to me - Jesse Stay

Roflmao that explains it .....well then carry on :) - Jeunelle Foster

got a vid for the Dr. Phil Show? - Mike Dammann

Please do share....this should be interesting to say the least. I'm almost sure than when Chris returns to this feed he may be rather surprised by the many comments he got to this post already....All thanks to me of course :) - Jeunelle Foster

Jeunelle and Mike, from his status updates, it sounds like the show won't be broadcast until September, so I doubt it :-) - Jesse Stay

Damn I was soooo looking forward to it.....BUMMER...well I guess I can wait till September - Jeunelle Foster

Jesse. Cool. Will be looking forward to finding out what sort of issues Chris has and how Phil suggests to fix them. ;) - Mike Dammann

I like how you think Mike, I was thinking the same thing. I mean anybody that takes a photo of himself standing in the green room has got some issues don't you think? hehehehe - Jeunelle Foster

That might be the symptom ;) Btw. thanks for (unattentionally) bringing me back to ff. Haven't been here in ages. Love how this thread refreshes by itself. - Mike Dammann

Now I need to figure out how to connect this to Twitter so I can go Noah David Simon style and be on 10 places at the same time :) - Mike Dammann

You are a funny man, I like a sense of humor. Some people are so damn stuffy lately it's like go take a laxative and leave me alone you pathetic loser. This week alone I noticed 5 people who don't like the fact that I am care free and like to have light fun in the community. They have issues and need to be on the Dr. Phil show too. God Damn - Jeunelle Foster

Who are the other 4 besides me? :) - Louis Gray

Oh so now you want to join in hahahaha...well all I can say is they're not from this community. - Jeunelle Foster

How would anyone know this is Dr. Phil's green room without being told? - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

MiniMage because I follow Chris's Twitter updates - Jesse Stay

And this came out when he was on the Dr. Phil show - Jesse Stay

But then again, I could be wrong - Jesse Stay

Yeah I have to figure out how to use this Friendfeed setting properly. I post 1 thing here and it kicks out 2-3 times at Twittter and Facebook. It's annoying and I'm too lazy to fix it and I should before people complain that I'm spamming or something like that. I'm such a trouble maker. - Jeunelle Foster

I'm not very Friendfeed literate, so I think we need to keep this thread going til I find the courage to explore a little further. - Mike Dammann

I'm always accused by some competitor of spamming. If nobody accuses you of spamming, you shouldn't be in internet marketing (my motto) :) - Mike Dammann

Well Chris will be most impressed with the comments he got so far or he may tell us all to get a friggin life. Roflmao - Jeunelle Foster

Nah, Jesse, I think that works for you. I just wondered if the average viewer would know that room. I don't watch TV, myself. [edit: for future reference, I was calling myself "MiniMage can't be Gnomish" at this time] - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Gnomish...good one :) I recently tried this "clean tweets" and it has almost everyone I know listed as a spammer in it and I know someone probably has me listed as a spammer in theirs too. The funny thing is these people don't seem to be spammers to me at all, they tweet the same as I do. I don't know maybe I'm biased to it. - Jeunelle Foster

Twitter is a big mess. No clue what they will do, but the fake adult profiles are growing. Problem is when you reach over 10k followers and follow most back, what do you do? Get rid of them all and start over? - Mike Dammann

But of course, if you follow only 40 people and 10 of them have profile names like @marylovesitxxx then maybe it would do you some good to clean house. ;) - Mike Dammann

Well Scoble dropped 100,000 or so, if he can do it heck I can but I'll never reach 100,000 neither do I care to. I only really add people that are into social media the rest I block and get out of my sight. I don't have time to waste you know, I like to reserve my special time for my exhilarating bubble baths. - Jeunelle Foster

Right now I have a few accounts, one for each site basically and there of course I like to keep things related to the niche. I have a tougher time with my regular account. I see so many people and so many websites that are discussing social media, I figure there is not much to add at this time that is not already being added, but then again, need to spend some time, time I like to spend otherwise. - Mike Dammann

Time is a problem alright, I can get some stuff done during the day but still not finish half the stuff I really need to get done. Skimming the networks can be time consuming if you don't know what you're looking for or where to look. If I go to my Google reader to get some current social media news that too can take some time if you don't have good sources that supply current social media news. - Jeunelle Foster

Comment baiting on somebody else's post is called "thread jacking". - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

Who is baiting comments, Mark? - Mike Dammann

Holy crap... I hadn't dropped into FriendFeed lately, so I missed this whole conversation. A few responses: they wouldn't let me take video at Dr. Phil. It was verbotten. The show airs late September, I'm told. He was really nice in person, very smart, very personable. He has a great sense of humor that rarely gets expressed while the cameras are rolling. I ended up liking the dude. - Chris Brogan

LOL! Are you in a dressing room? - NashvilleDeals

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not an interruption - http://300wordsaday.com/2009...

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dude. LOVE that you shared this! Thanks SO much for sharing... - Scott Magdalein

It's not like you have to be religious to get something out of it. It's a really good reminder, period. - Chris Brogan

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cnewmark: "New Study Finds Grassroots Enterprise Social Media Often Works Best" - http://www.cnewmark.com/2009...

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THIS is the good stuff. Thanks, Craig. - Chris Brogan

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Is anyone stealing your stuff? - http://www.christopherspenn.com/2009...

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Penn is brilliant, and often in ways that others don't get. He and I have been having a private conversation across his blog posts for days, it seems. - Chris Brogan

Robert Scoble

New blog post: you are SO unfollowed! http://scobleizer.com/2009... I'll follow on FriendFeed anyone who comments here:

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Follow me! - TheHenry

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TheHenry: I already am! :-) - Robert Scoble

Please don't unfollow me!! :) - Carlo Nasuti

oh yeah! I forgot! lol! #fail - TheHenry

Very interesting approach Robert. If it is working for you that is awesome though. Hope all is well. Give Roc a big hug for me. - C.C. Chapman

Yo... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Not too much unfollowing please. - Tim

i'm in - Tai Hsia

Can you follow me? - Giorgio

ok I'll allow you - Derry O Donnell

What's going on here? - Andru Edwards

I think you're already following me Robert. - Andrew Leahey

well ok ) - Denverken

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. - Robert Kenney

* - Michael J. Carrasquillo

[comments here] - Nick Humphries

I will comment here! :) - John Ptacek

Great blog appreciate all of your "likes" that I would not have noticed before. Thanks for all the time you spend educating us. - Gary Prechtel

auto-follow always seemed like a bad idea. people can always msg you but your stream will get totally cluttered if you dont do a little bit of housekeeping. - William Kapes

"baby I'm a star" -Prince (off purple rain) - Michael J. Carrasquillo

novel approach, seems sound - Danny Ayers

Consider me available for following. :-) - Eric D. Wilson

Okay, I'll bite.. - Tanya

Bring it Scobleizer. - Todd Pringle

I agree, Twitter is much better this way. - Ryan W

I appreciate your work, and your passion for social media. - Evan Travers

sounds simple... - Mateo Yadarola

Scoble follow me baby - Jadito

Oh you are getting quite a response here!!!! I'm commenting so you'll follow me but the thing is you're going to LIKE following me because you'll learn all about Sedona through tons of videos and you'll love it so much you'll want to pack your camera and head out here! =) - SedonaTV

Thanks for the mentions, Robert (and you know I'm not commenting just for the follow - I just like to follow you, which is what counts!) - Jesse Stay

Guess I might as well delete that overpriced twitter app I bought last week. - Shea from iPhone

Actually Robert, now I've seen you've tidied up your twitter, I'll probably follow you there again too. :-) - Tim

hey follow me scoble - Andy Jenks

Meh, who cares really, not like you read everyone you followed. Plus unfollowed you anyways, not like you have to say that's interestined except friendfeed spam. - Steve

joining the crowd - good move Robert. - Adam

follow me - Tai Hsia

welcome to Boulder - Andrew Hyde

@scobleizer just created the most important tech follow list on Twitter. - Christian Anderson

aww shucks, and here I was thinking it was just me who you unfollowed. - Jess Sloss

I underwent the same situation, Robert - I unfollowed almost everybody on Twitter who duplicated their accounts here on FrF. I got a tempest of fury for this action. web3 is too personal still )) - soci@medi@tor

Scoble in Boulder = Trouble. - Jim Halligan @jim

I feel fortunate that you're still subbed to me on FF. I haven't even noticed whether you unfollowed me on Twitter. But you following me, still hasn't gotten me the chicks. :P Always fun seeing your posts, long as you don't block me, it doesn't matter if you follow me or not. :) - Arlan Koizumi

I did the same thing some weeks ago after avoiding twitter because it got too noisy. It was instantly better. But in the mean time I started to use FF more and I like it better here so I hardly go near twitter now. - Murray Barton

You already follow me here on ff, which i use more than twitter. - dthree

What's up? - Kevin Whalen from iPhone

Hey Robert, so for following >1,600 is it that right way taken by Philtro and Filttr? - Martin Adamek

I'm glad you mentioned Loic, he caught a lot of flack for doing this earlier. - Steven Cains

Hey Robert - fight the tweetspam ! - Michael Neale

Don't think you are following me on Twitter anymore..please do and best regards - Karma Martell

I'm still trying to figure out the following... so I'm watching how you do it scoble. - Matthew Schrock

Good plan. I'm looking forward to your results. I'm trying to figure out all these social media elements. I would appreciate your Twitter follow. - David Stanley

hope this new approach works for you! - timepilot

Oh, so now you are only easy on FF. - James Watters

Odd internal response, I don't follow everyone who follows me cuz of the very noise you talk about. And, there's no good reason for you to follow me since I'm unlikely to deliver news of interest to you. And yet, here I am, posting on FriendFeed so you have the OPTION of following me, a stranger who is not the same kind of SMART as you. Who'd have thought... - Della Mauler

Interesting statement about original content value of FF independent of twitter. Twitter is where you keep your noise level down... - James Watters

This seems like asking for trouble to me, Scoble. But, it's your time and bandwith to do with what you will. Since only a handful of people (by that I think I mean just one) follow me on Twitter, it's pretty easy for me to weed out the bots. The people I follow are my internet nerds (mostly the Rev 3 crew) so I know their interests are in line with mine. Hit me up for some edifying conversations about Lost and video games, Robert. - Jeremiah Green

Here you go Robert! [also via twitter: @Scobleizer Therefore: only approx. 1.7 million "active" human @Twitter users contribute 50%+ of all activity, right? #engagement] Regards, @AAinslie - Alexander Ainslie

The green avatar is so disturbing mate. :) - Jordan Windebank

I'll lead, you follow. So where are we going? - Tom Sheppard

I was sad to see you unfollowed me, but now you may follow me again, so all will be well in the world. - Jodi

following the leader... - John Munro

You're still following me - does that mean I'm a smart feller? ;) - Brett Kelly

so glad I mail Robert a business card every month :) - Christian Anderson

Della: the thing is here I can follow you and put you into a list and watch you less frequently than some of my other people. So everyone wins. But only here on FriendFeed. :-) - Robert Scoble

Some of us have been doing this from our start. Kind of cool, eh? But our numbers don't grow quickly so we were tagged as "slow." Nice to see you catch up with us! Also, this may shock you, there sre folks who follow and communicate with only 3 folks on twitter and they are HAPPY! Imagine.... - lynda spangler

Yay. Now he will follow a librarian. - Joe....

Follow this dot!!! . - Bwana ☠

I've long thought the entire Twitter "etiquette" of always following who follows you to be a bit of a folly. I'm following 114 at the moment, and the stream still moves too fast for me to keep up with. - Darren Landrum

Comment! - anna sauce

ok - Vasu Srinivasan

Good test, count me in... I don't follow tons of people, I follow a few prolific Scoble-types and the rest are more focused in areas I'm interested in. - David Ziembicki

I'm not following tons of people, just a select few. More to follow on FB when facebook has completely integrated Friendfeed-funcionality. ;-) - Wolfgang G. Wettach

I only follow people I know or have something interesting to say, did you really have 160000 people that said something worthwhile??? - Gerard Vanschip-Miyama

Well I commented via your Blog so instead of repeating myself I'll link to comment http://disq.us/1ms9 - Keith - @tsudo

Gerard: everyone says something worthwhile once in a while. The trick is to see it when it happens. Here on FriendFeed, by the way, you have a better shot because good stuff usually gets liked and commented on, so it pulls up higher into my view. - Robert Scoble

come join us here folks http://ff.im/6dUHN xxx - Mark

Okay. But will you read and comment on my stuff? - Mellissa Jane

Robert, I posted this after Loic's decision and it looks like it will need another update. http://www.knowthenetwork.com/blog... I think there is value in stating your follow policy. - Keith - @tsudo

cool - Zach Cheatham

Hello? - Vicky

following all the discussion of you unfollowing everyone on twitter has made me think about doing the same thing and starting fresh. - (jeff)isageek

not unless we beat you in the Ashes - Mark

Nice post Robert, and no surprise it's an improvement. ;o) I have seen it for me too. - Rob Sellen :o)

1 thing I find Robert still worth following @Scobleizer when I am not on friendfeed & on my Hootsuite or PeopleBrowsr. therefore not much affected, not much 2 bother me, ego not gone at all. luv your post Robert it is a frank posting - polou/indigo_bow

Follow me Robert, I promise I'm not annoying. :) @cluteman - Greg Clute from iPhone

You've piqued my curiosity. - Chainz

Robert, thank you! I follow you and enjoy your "likes" and your energetic takes. I also enjoy your Building43 interviews! I am a constant FriendFeed user now. Thank you! - Tobin Truog

This made me realise I must be more active on FF and comment/post more :-). - Mats Pettersson

I think I'll give FriendFeed a go! Never tried it, but looks easy and I need to understand the interwebs better. @CodeSamurai_Com - CodeSamurai

butt-kissing is not a prerequisite for being followed, he will follow you anyways :D - Mark

Count me in! (Please??) - Ricky Maveety

lol @mark. ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

You can follow me, but since you follow a lot of people, you probably can't pay attention to the stream of tweets. - Alex Knight

Alex..that's the WHOLE point he did this... ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

IMHO 1,647 is still way too many people to follow. - Alex Knight

I will NOT get baited into ... ah CRAP. I follow very few people on twitter, mainly only to find info from Android developers (my topic of choice). If you mention anything about the food you are currently eating, etc.. you will probably not be followed. If you post 80,000 times a day, you will not be followed, since Twitters interface sucks (not so for FF). Also, no offense to other social users, but if you resend your FF/FB/<insert other social site here> entries to twitter, I probably won't follow. - Tim Hoeck

http://socialspark.com/blogs... Chris Pirillo is Scum. - Mark

good move IMO - Joanna Nicol

Love the post, love the response. - Chris Rogers from BuddyFeed

nice hanging out at with beach w/ you last week! follow moi!!! - Raina Lee

I always feel like scoble's following me - Rodney J Woodruff from iPhone

Don't forget your Dunbar number, Scoble! There are only so many people you can have meaningfully connect with online. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Mark is right. No butt kissing. Ew. - Robert Scoble

"I always feel like, somebody's watching me..." - Wizetux

Comment!!!! Ohh wait but you already follow me... - Amit Nangare

Follow me, if you aren't already....please. Thanks, - Steve de Mena

here is my comment ZOL - Shane Gibson

Comment? What kind of coomment, Robert? :-) - Mitch Featherston

Whoop there it is! On Twitter @jimgoldstein - Jim Goldstein from iPhone

Oh..Oh... Mr. Kotter...Mr Kotter..follow me! - Scott Booher

Glad to see you're writing more than 140 characters on that blog. Doesn't that feel liberating? Maybe we should be allowed character# based on your metric for powerful/smart/newsmaker - Noah Bloom

You already follow me here on FF, for which I thank you. So, I'll just say thanks for the phone call the other day. :) - Jeff Harbert

I'll take a follow! - Jeff Weber

@shaunhess - Shaun Hess

Ok, so follow me again and I will follow you back. Thanks! - Audrey

Robert - I fail on most of your criteria so I'm not expecting you to follow me. The thing is I don't care if you follow me back - this is social media and everyone has their own choice. I choose to follow you because you entertain and inform me. The relationship is 100% one way and I am more than happy with that! - Pon

Robert - Last night at GDGT Party the person at the Blackberry booth said: 1) She had 'heard of Twitter, never friend feed' uses neither 2) Is SCOBLE is coming tonight 3) Wow, your Blackberry is really "archaic" and find out when contract lets you upgrade. F-D UP? Booth babes need primers. - Liza

Interesting theory... people who comment more apt to contribute? - Mark Philpot

I know someone else who tried this strategy last year, with similar results. I've been debating it. Once I got over 3K followers on Twitter life just got weird. Started to spend X amount of time every day blocking porn spam. - Patricia F. Anderson

Liza: yeah, sorry for not coming to the party. I went and saw Obama's CTO instead. - Robert Scoble

Steve Lynch: my Dunbar number is higher than yours is. :-) - Robert Scoble

Nice summary Robert on the whole Unfollow thing, but would it be too repetitive if I re-post on my FF? - Keith Rowland

What is the best friend feed aggregation strategy of non-friend streams (eg RSS, twitter, etc)? Imaginary friend per service, then add to lists? Multiple services per imaginary friend or 1 to 1? Or add the services to a group? What are the considerations? - John Brown

Keith: you can repost anywhere you like, thanks! - Robert Scoble

I'm in! - Craig Shipp

still wondering how you are able to handle such a big load of subscribers here and e.g. so many followers with twitter o_0. I am already (sometimes) lost with the few i got till now. Lately with one sweep almost 40 to 50 contacts in twitter disappeard and i have no clue why ... boah, how are you handling the noise? Hell, with so many ppl in, you might have a terrific noise? Or you wear just good headphones ;)? - Ronald

I very much agree that being choosy is the key to Twitter. I'm not nearly on the scale that you are, but in my experience, freely following people (whetther they follow me or not) and then mercilessly cutting back on them over and over again results in a kind of darwinianly better and better signal to noise ratio. - Tim Maly

Touche! - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Count me in - Johnny

Hi Robert - Randy Allen Bishop

Liked the blog post and totally agree. I've been meaning to do something similar. What I do is occasionally prune and then add some "better" replacements, so my total is always 2000 follows. - Bora Zivkovic

I don't see how anyone can manage so many users without groups. Then again, with groups you could just make an "ignore" group. - Oscar M. Cantu from iPhone

Great blog post. I totally agree on the noise level. I figure I have blocked a few hundred accounts on Twitter, and my noise level has dropped dramatically. Thanks for the follow! - Tony "Frosty" Welch

Hello Hello! - Sam Goldfield

Robert - I figured you were in DC from FF, but she had NO IDEA what a CTO is. Point is, she was eager to give you a Blackberry, but not me, and I wish I had a Scoble costume to pretend for 5 minutes. - Liza

@Robert I think you are starting another mass follow again. - Steve Chou from fftogo

Steve: that's not the problem. As long as spam doesn't enter the system I can deal. Keep in mind here I can choose how I follow. I can put you all in a folder that I never look at, if I wanted to. - Robert Scoble

my feelings were hurt that you unsubscribed to me on twitter, but i agree with your methods - Brian Appleby

I'm in! - Chris Rossini

Brian, yeah, but I follow you here. So there. - Robert Scoble

really doesn't matter as long as i can follow you, that's the beauty of these services - Brian Appleby

How did you come to follow so many to begin with? I get annoyed with ppl and unfollowing is easier than sifting through their garbage constantly. - R1CC1

Autofollow was a horrible idea to begin with. - David Chieng

I kind of tired to keep an eye on who follows me now,the ones I'm following is much more important.:-) - Steve Chou from fftogo

Whoa lots of comments I'm following you longtime lol - Edgar Rodríguez from iPhone

Robert: we need more intelligent spam-follower-filtering on Twitter! We need to fix this. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

@David +1 I think auto follow is such a bad idea to begin with,and people like Robert now even need to pay to unfollow these people. - Steve Chou from IM

How much did SocialToo charge for running the unfollow script? - Shane

I'm in! - rich brant from iPhone

I heard its 25 dollars. - Steve Chou from IM

I've always been very picky in who I follow on twitter. I follow 40 people, and I can't guarantee that I see every single tweet. I don't scroll back usually, unless it's my "Real Life" column in Tweetdeck that couldn't fit on my screen. - Tom Ribbens

My birthday is also January 18th, therefore you must follow me Robert! ;) - Chris Luckhardt from BuddyFeed

Thanks Steve! $25 is pretty reasonable. Wonder if anyone else will be jumping on the bandwagon - Shane

Haha....I also threw the devil horns for Scobleizer...that should count for something. ;) http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Chris Luckhardt from BuddyFeed

OK, let's try it! And what about Twitter? - Alexei Zheglov

Thanks for your post. Last time I checked you follow me here on FriendFeed. OK not to follow me on Twitter. - Pilgrim Five

Smart way to clean house. - Jeremy Chone

u have already subscribing me although i am just a-staying-at-home mum =)). thanx scoble. u are really a nice geek. haha! - zʍıɔ

Let's do it. - Kate

this is like an awesome commentfest - Edgar Rodríguez

You can follow me, but I never say anything. Oh.. wait.... - James Macgill

follow me! - Tate DA FF MVP from BuddyFeed

Sometimes the tortoise beats the hare after all... building organically based on getting to know people and interactions tends to avoid the ghastly spammers, seo peeps and bots - Sally Church

Tap, tap... is this thing on? - Yanik Falardeau

This is the best place to follow you. On twitter you only see post headlines, but friendfeed is where the conversation takes place. - Michael Fidler

Ah crap. You're already following me :) - Jason Nunnelley

I'm outside your sphere, but bootstrapping is bootstrapping right? - Travis Bedard

Tuesday night for the first time in 2 months I UNfollowed everyone on Twitter who wasn't following me. Since you had UNfollowed me, yup I unfollowed you. My Twitter account is so /FUBARed! It only goes to page 506 to show who I'm following and after that it is BLANK! I don't even know if they show in my Home stream. So Robert, I value what you say. Know I can tweet profusely - but it's as @replies to others with the occasional micro-blog thrown in. Question, what DID I do to cause you to UNfollow me? - Arleen Anderson

I hope you'll follow me... - Shane Tilton

Follow me, eh? - Joey Gibson

Trying to fill out those dropped Twitter follows? - Jamie Elgie

Scoble: Have you convinced Guy Kawasaki against his "follow everyone that follows you" mentality? - Kevin Pruett

please do what you must to have the most effecient feed mr scoble, the random will still creep through the cracks, ;) - chaz2b

I still haven't really adopted FriendFeed, but I will get interesting here in time if you follow me. - Lance M. Brown

How are your cleanup efforts coming along? - Jennifer Ruggiero

Oops - I also meant to ask, Robert: how are you managing to follow the couple thousand that you are now re-following on Twitter? You must be using groups, I guess...any other methods? I find ~500 people to be a near max in terms of how many folks I can fully read. - Lance M. Brown

Following your inspiration, I unfollowed almost 100 people last night and blocked about 1000 spammers, cam girls, MLM marketers, and the like. Twitter is more like it was a year ago, its almost like I gave my Twitter account an enema and it worked. Thanks for the original idea. - Mark Edwards

Excellent! - Don Strickland

Robert, I started out only following those I know and those I am genuinely interested in. I've only followed back a few of the people who've followed me. I have a second account that I decided to experiment with. I followed about 700 people on there. It has had about double the followers of my main account consistently. I am about to try some new tricks there with an auto-follow script I'm writing but I think I will stay the course with my main account. - Paul Eck

Robert, I tried the "follow everyone" (almost) method for a short time - then I'd unfollow about once-a-week. Now I try to schedule a "follow new" once a week. TweetDeck's group feature makes following lots of folks bearable. So does FF, but you've been saying that for-ever! - Kathy E Gill

I am just taking it slow. - Rick Cogley from iPhone

Hey. - Kreg Steppe

I will follow you if you follow me (Genesis) - Keith Barrett

I may not be smart, but I'm smart enough to follow you! - John Pfaff

It occurred to me (and surely to someone before me), that different definitions of "following" might be a big factor here. If I'm following someone, it means I'm following along with their updates. But others might see themselves more as becoming part of a person's "following". Not that they are necessarily reading the person's stuff, but they are willing to be considered part of that person's inflated Twitter posse, as part of the influence-trading aspect of Twitter. - Lance M. Brown

Robert, I think that the biggest thing that changed is not that you were "wrong" (to follow everyone) before but that the Twitter population has changed so much. A year ago, pretty much everyone on Twitter was real, and interesting - now there's so much automated gaming the system going on that the signal to noise ratio has gotten unbearable. So I think anyone who cares about more than... more... - Matthew Blaisdell

I can't imagine how it would happen technologically, but it would be great if there was a way to ditch followers who weren't actually reading your tweets. - Lance M. Brown

Enjoyed recent posts and look forward to more from you! Keep it up. - One Degree Connected

I don't want to be left out please!! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

All right, I'll bite :) - although I'll say that I did the mass-unfollow-thing months ago - long before it was cool. - Justin from Nambu

Your most active followers are on FF. No loss.If you really wanted to make a bold statement you ought to have blocked all of your followers and started from scratch. - Benjamin Taylor

Been a while since I put you and Shel On the record...Online - Eric Schwartzman

blah. - imabonehead

Good article Robert. I honestly enjoyed the perspective. I found the same to be true, but on a much lower scale, of course ;-) - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

i'm in! - Criz

I don't get it - so now you are using Twitter kinda like a normal person, and its some kind of miracle that it works better? - Nick Lothian

I'm impressed you can keep up with 1600 people. I have trouble enough with the little amount I have. I did find that making FriendFeed imaginary friends and putting them in groups for those I'd like to read occasionally (but not on a regular basis) has helped a lot - Tamara

Follow....how about some promotion! - Bob DeMarco

i'm in - Joshua Smith from twhirl

9/11 Was an Inside Job - bill giltner

Stop it, or I will have to get a restraining order. - Sriks7

Hey, Robert! - tomit from iPhone

In my mind I'm important enough to follow ;-) - Jonathan Callahan

Hello Robert....Whatever your favorite genre is...http://listen.grooveshark.com/#... - Michele Lorito-Chase

Looks like you have a lot of work to do following everybody. - Corbett Barr

now i'll have to write something interesting... - Robert Littlejohn

me! i offer nothing but the warm feeling of having accepted a ff reject. - Marco

ok. so how will you filter the noise now - Kfir Pravda

Ooo, I've won the lottery. You'll follow me now. Wheeee! (how do you have the time to go through all of the names by hand? VA assistance?) - Peggy Dolane

Great :) - Baard @ Pixum

Interesting trend on twitter - I always wondered what sense it made to follow tens of thousands of people, too much noise. I'm finding it hard enough to follow 2900 (looking to cull even that down as I mostly tweet about 30 people!) - Tia Singh, Life Coach

211th comment: WTF - Geer

Good :) - ★ Soner Gönül

I like your ability to influence so many people. I'm following you (mostly here - on FriendFeed) because it's one of the ways to learn how you do it (but, please, do not follow me if you do not see anything you could learn from me :-). - Hanna Wiszniewska

I would come up w/ a better vetting process. - Joe

why would you do that? - james

got to get a pic up so i can fit the criteria, I only follow 45 people and some of them are on thin ice ( Im lookin at you Scoble) - James Hunter

"Where in The Net is Robert San Diego?" (cit.) :-) - Luca Perugini from iPhone

I'm not kissing your arse,but i do learn a lot listening to you. - Paul Downing

@scobleizer why would you randomly follow people who comment in this post when you just got done knocking FFollo and having to unfollow a gazillion people on Twitter? - Bryan Zirkel

Bryan: because I'm following people one by one and putting them into lists on my screen. Autofollowing means you aren't doing ANY of that thinking. Also, autofollowing will get you spammers, if they ever show up (and they will). - Robert Scoble

@Robert: Read your blogpost and that's indeed what I look at to follow people too. No autofollow and even close friends have to tell something interesting for me to (keep) following. Friends who are new to Twitter (no tweets yet) get the benefit of doubt. - Patrick Mackaaij

If you follow me, great, but if you don't I'll understand. :) And I ought to do some pruning myself... - Grant Bierman

Let's give it a try. :0) - Toma Kazakov

I still don't understand how you want to follow someone who just writes a comment over here. Well, this is not the first time. I did not understand why and how you followed 100k people. I find it hard to properly follow 100 people. - Sumanth Kolar

Sumanth: obviously there are degrees of "following." When you read the New York Times, do you read the entire paper word for word? I don't. Same when I'm following. I only get random slices of some of my lists. Others, which have 500 people on them, get 100% read. - Robert Scoble

I'm still here . . . although tired after teaching all day. Louis Gray came to my PR class at SFSU and WOWED the 50 students [except for one who thinks we are making too much of social media] We won't be following him. - Shari Weiss

I like cheese! - Paul Puri

really? - clockwise from iPhone

Shari: Louis wows me too. Glad to see the class is getting into it. - Robert Scoble

He he :) - Richard Holas

I still like the "stranger stream" of Twitter vs "friend feed" of other applications. I don't feel the need to read all tweets from everybody - and tools let me check my fave tweeples. I think mass unfollowing destroys some of the social contract - Robert you are lucky because you are well liked and can do some risky things but companies for example (not Brands of One) would be in... more... - Laurel Papworth

As @charleneli predicted back in January, 2009 will be the year of de-friending on social networks. It's here. - Mark Evans

Laurel: yeah, you have to navigate these waters carefully if you are representing a brand, that's for sure! - Robert Scoble

you can put me on your boring list... - Charles Tanton

i will not get followed back: not powerful, don't have a brand, not a news maker... but i kinda understand the reasons - Dani Martínez

I still think it all goes into how you use twitter. If your using it as a communication tool it depends on if you are looking for broadcast or 2 way. Its interesting to watch as some of the bigger names turn back from the broadcast and go back to the 2 way. - Luke Kilpatrick

@Robert so when you're taking in information from FF do you have a feed of several dozen/hundred "key" people and then categorize the rest, or are you mainly searching? Do you utilize groups at all or mainly just rely on what comes across your feeds? I guess I'm curious as to how you're using FF to collect information. - Bryan Zirkel

I have found Twitter becomes noise rather than a conversation once the following/follower thing gets over a certain mark. I think this is the dirty little secret of Twitter - if it just turns into white noise, rather than a filter, then it becomes less than useful. - Michael Liss

I'm interested in how we'll all feel over the next few years as social networks continue to change and more people and organizations get on them. Obviously, many of us are getting fed up with spammers and are unfollowing them on Twitter and Facebook. I am also having a hard time keeping up with new subscribers on FriendFeed because I know less about them from their profiles and have to... more... - Cathryn Hrudicka

BTW, I feel like I'm finding lots of interesting new people to follow from these discussions that Robert and others are holding on FF. Cool! - Cathryn Hrudicka

Am I too late to comment and get followed? - Hichame Assi

I'm definitely around :) - KyNam Doan

Aren't you following me already? If not, you should be! LoL - Thomas Ward

I'm definitely late to be followed. :D - Faraz Mullick

I don't get it but ok :) - Parvez Halim

LOL! I follow those I find interesting and which can give me useful information. And hope someone follows me for the same reasons. - Flavio

Very interesting post - I've always thought that you guys who follow loads of people must get completely swamped by noise! Like you, I've found it useful to follow companies I use that have interesting products like Zoho and Evernote as a way of keeping up to date with their latest innovations. Excellent idea spelling out your "follow criteria" - it needs to become standard etiquette for social networks so that people don't get offended when they aren't followed back :) . - David Meredith

aren't you doing the same thing here, that you did in Twitter? Choose carefully who you follow, filling your brain with pollution doesn't make you smarter - Allison

Just finished reading the Mashable post on your unfollow exercise. It's attracting attention from all the other big names now. - George Hall (Australia)

Very interesting indeed, I only to unfollow a few, cause I just never had auto follow on.. So now I just unfollow the ones I'm bored of.. - Jaap Willem

Seems like a good idea. Although Louis Gray also has a few valid points on his latest blog post why it might be a mistake http://bit.ly/19UKxk - Silver Hage

I've never understood the auto-follow procedure on any social network. Even on Facebook, where it is obligatory, one can still lower the noise by simply hiding the updates of those who want to follow you, but perhaps also have little personal connection and therefore can be hidden. - Noah Gray

It seems like the unfollowing was the easy part. Choosing who to follow again must have been a chore. I think it is crucial in twitter (and FriendFeed for that matter) to have a clear out every six months or so otherwise you get bogged down in an information feed you don't really care about. - Chris Nixon

I can totally understand why you had to do this. I'm following 2700-ish folks on Twitter and I need 3 groups to manage it (using TweetDeck). I feel I am keeping up with most of my local community and the general tech community at large though I'm sure I'm still missing quite a bit of stuff from people who are not in the 3 groups. I also wonder how much more I can actually handle. - Ken Seto

Um... well, I made something of myself, but then I didn't like what I made, so now I'm doing it all over again. Not sure how that fits with your criteria! Plus, I really don't have a brand or any influence to speak of. I do look great in boxers, however. - Mark Jepsen

OK, OK, changed my picture. Instead of a green clock (a clock is my personal brand) I put a picture of myself. A lot of people told me to do that.... - Bora Zivkovic

I am still looking for info on holographic technology being used for news delivery. Perhaps it's a technology that hasn't even been invented yet or is sitting on a shelf somewhere. What say you? http://specialdee.wordpress.com/2009... - Denise

Hoping your new look account has had the desired effect. No need to follow me, I'm not the interesting type, I'll just be glad if your insights, links & content continues. Congrats & good luck - JanLawrence

Here's what's interesting, Robert, I've noticed an uptick in followers even if you reply or RT or like someone's tweet, not just if you follow that person. Then again, perhaps that's the intent - if you like or RT someone's idea, that's a kind of stamp of approval. - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Hej hej! - Peter

The Scoble Pendulum.. How long till we go back to FOLLOW!! FOLLOW!!! FOLLOW!!!! ? :) - Adrian Scicluna

I did a purge on Facebook for the same reasons a few months ago. It's under 300 and it's people I actually care about. I've come "this close" to running a purge on Twitter but haven't yet. Maybe this will spark me to do it. I've kept FF tight from the beginning. - Rob Williams

moving from FB to FF ... fewer, longer, more meaningful threads. welcoming your follow. cheers - marc calamia

ok, you´re following me already :-) - Torsten Eckert

alright - follow me... - thx in advance Robert Scoble... - Nilesh

All that commenting in the past counts for nothing? - Kevin Gamble

Hey Robert... Great post... On FriendFeed, I increasingly put people without meaningful and valuable content on a separate feed that I rarely check... Its a more "sensible" way to unfollow, i think... I only unsubscribe if I get pissed at someone etc. I wish, FF gave users the option to only unsubscribe from comments and likes (but keep the main feed). This would be a good tool to control the noise... - Onur Kabadayi

I agree with Robert (duh!). I very briefly made the effort of checking out the new follows and deciding whether to follow back. I think once I hit a thousand I shifted to a model of occasionally saying, "If you want me to follow you, talk to me." Hit two thousand and quit saying anything or checking followers. I don't care if they follow me as long as they either say useful things like real people or don't talk at all. I've never autofollowed back. This strategy works for me. - Patricia F. Anderson

I have a large difference between people I follow (around 2000) and people who follow me (around 1800) - I choose people who are important sources of information. People choose me if they think I am an important source of information to them. I never thought it would have to be a one-to-one relationship as to who is useful to whom: some are informative, others are good listeners and learners. I learn from people I follow and I hope my followers learn from me. - Bora Zivkovic

I also think that those of us who follow larger numbers of people don't use the stream in the same way. It is more dipping in and out of the stream, trusting that the important stuff will be repeated enough to float to the top, engaging with conversations of the moment. I wrote a blogpost on this earlier this year: http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2009... - Patricia F. Anderson

Someone told me twitter can be separated into two types. (id say at least two) - Kay Proskin

Scoble, I am beginning to think you are a cult leader :). Look at all these comments! I am using FF more and more these days... Useful for eGuiders.com that's for sure. - Marc Ostrick

I'm not sure your following me. - Amit Morson

Hey Scobie :D Follow me ! - paniaguai

I like Robert. He was one of the first people I followed on Twitter and brought me to FF. But I don't understand why people are desperate to have him follow them. Status? Some kind of virtual autograph? - Tech Introvert

What the heck. Follow me if you like. I'll be as entertaining & informative as I can. - Aaron Schaub from iPod

Been considering doing the same. Your post just might be the flame that lights a fire you-know-where to get it done. - Kate

I only follow a few people and keep losing track so lord only knows how you managed to even begin to keep track of a conversation before friendfeed came along - Iain from BuddyFeed

Well done! Who need followers that aren't reading your tweets anyway. - Sean Rasmussen

I just want a toaster! - ZuDfunck

I'm considering doing same once I'm more confident in my use of FriendFeed. I RT'd this and it resonated with at least one of my followers. - Tony Hollingsworth

'Hand-crafted personal network' is the meme of the moment, and whilst I can see the workmanship, where's the value going to be for you, Robert, in following this rag-tag (no offence people :) ) of folks from a gazillion different verticals. (OK, so they're mostly life scientists). - Andrew Spong

I use to want to be Bob Dylan. Now I am not so sure. - ZuDfunck

um..... - Spencer

My take: you can't be an authentic, credible voice to your community if you let 'sex & dollars' spammers hang on to your coattails. Spam followers matter.... in a bad way. Allowing them to be associated with you diminishes your potential value to genuine followers. It's a pain. It takes time. It's worth doing. More on this, if interested: http://tr.im/vJwb - Andrew Spong

I'll have mine to go. - ZuDfunck

Hope to see more "old fashioned blogging", like it better than tweets. Tweets are bound to disappear into oblivion the moment they're posted. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

"Spam followers matter.... in a bad way." - I certainly agree with this. I block pornbots just as quickly as they follow me. I'm less vigilant about the commercial follows, but usually they go away by themselves after a while. - John Craft

You're already following me here (don't care about twitter tough), so i just hope you don't un-follow, even though you probably don't understand what i'm talking about most of the time, since it's in portuguese. - Diego Sana

So what happened to the advantages to following so many people you always talked about? - Bas

Thanks for connecting here, still learning all the advantages of FF - carece

@Andrew Regarding spam followers and the idea that allowing them to follow you somehow dilutes your credibility, I just have to disagree. To me that places the burden on the wrong person. I don't have time to waste pruning those who follow me, unless they are overtly annoying.My stream is public, they can follow me anyway. What matters to me is that the spammers leave me alone. If they don't, I block them. If they keep quiet, I don't care. - Patricia F. Anderson

What is important is not who follows me, but who *I* follow. - Patricia F. Anderson

Follow me if you want, but I gotta warn ya, it's scintillating stuff! - Pierce Presley

Funny my twitter feed is much noisier but I have been very selective on who I follow. I have tried to make the feed relevant and actionable. At times I post things that seem out of the norm on my twitter feed but that is mainly for the few people who follow me that don't get it but I am trying to keep up their interest level. I also control who follows me, yes this breaks the model but I think the follow everyone model was broken and reckless - Richard Gallo

Am I interesting? Dunno. I'm often controversial, tho. ;) BTW, we met in person at a Pittsburgh Blogfest, but I really don't expect you to remember that. - Eric Williams

Enjoyed the post. I just started Twitter a few days ago to get away from Facebook. I like friendfeed the best - can't wait until it becomes more mainstream. - Robby Parker

Awesome move. Consider that my comment please :) - Charlotte Barker

friendfeed is definitively more evolved that Twitter. Conversely, user bases of Twitter is still its real (and unique) point of strenght... - Marco Castellani

Don't want you to follow me (unless you find my stream of interest) but it's quite interesting the number of people that comment to get you to follow! - Ben Drury

Hey Robert! So, I would like to talk to you about a social media company I'm working with right now. They launched a few months ago and their trajectory and momentum is pretty amazing. Oh, and I started unfollowing the noise in my Twitter after I commented on your blog post. - Gregg Le Blanc

Great ideas. I've been selective (though it fluctuates) about following people/accounts on Twitter since I joined about 2 years ago. I can't take too much noise. - Joe Lance from twhirl

I'm asking the same thing Bas asked... what about your video on the benefits of following so many people? I took a stab at that method of madness by starting to follow all kinds of people, and following anyone that followed me... but I always felt like I was missing good content from good people because of all the "spam". I started to use TweetDeck to create groups/columns for... more... - Timothy Federwitz

@Patricia - reminds me that I should probably review all my twitter followers and thin things down. :) - JA Castillo

thanks - Keith

I like conversing with interesting people. Sometimes that means commenting to get followed, @cogiva. ;) - Eric Williams

Hi Scoble! - Pete Gilbert

I did almost the same thing - unfollowed about 1000 from my 1500, no attention is way better - Maarten den Braber

Couldn't agree more. It's about time we all grew up. BTW Don't follow me. :-) - Gee Ranasinha

Robert what's the deal with Twitter? - stockmanmarc

Your post makes good sense. I didn't auto-follow & still find folks to unfollow because their noise gets too loud. - Debra Ellis

Very clever. I imagine the signal to noise is sooooo much better. - Chris Brogan

I've been thinking about unfollowing a bunch twitter folks as well. I'll look at SocialToo again. My initial experience with SocialToo wasn't good. However, it was during their infancy. - Ron Hudson

I don't blame you at all. Leo was all over that yesterday. - Daniel B. Honigman

why would simply leaving a comment prompt you to follow me? - David Wescott

You're not going to change your mind and mass unfollow us are you? - walidmREALTOR

Sup! :-) - Jon Winters

I suspect it identifies you as a real person interested in dialog, David. - Eric Williams

Followers are currency and you have plenty to spend - Lee Odden

Bob, did you do anything on Twitter recently ? Did you massively refollow people ? Seems like you screwed up Twitter : down for a while... ;-) - Enikao

Follow me! @carloscomputers - carloscomputers

very cool timing with just before twitter goes down hard! well done Robert! @crbrowning - Colin

@davidorban - David Orban

I've followed you and have really enjoyed your posts. I think I would miss that - Tom

Good to hear that your experiment has stopped the spam @lindsaydavies - Lindsay Davies

ciao Robert! - alex

Your ego is amazing. You make it seem like it is a special deal to be followed by you. I'm glad there are many very bright, talented people here who follow others, regardless of class, education, social status and not based on some snobbish criteria. - RuthNH

DON'T follow me! I write in Italian :-) - Lorenzo Strambi

Here I be - Robert

Wow, this is a lot of comments. And kudos for following Followable people who have something interesting to contribute to your day. I'm glad you did it, because that means you'll find AND share more interesting things. This, in turn, makes you more followable too. Thanks for seeing the light, so to speak. - ax0n

You killed twitter. - Melissa Pierce

and now with twitter down, many will flock to here! - Mark V. Fusco

I love rob - Mark from iPhone

Did this take down Twitter this morning Robert? - frank barry

That must of taken a long time :-) I've always been a fan of twitter, but I must say they have struggled in the last few weeks. We are working with their API on a project and their seems to be an issue every other day that causes problems. Do they have what it takes? - Chris Nadeau

I follow under 200 people and it's great. I can't imagine 1k+ . I add about three or four a month. - Mike Janicke

I unfollow people when I find I ignore their tweets/updates. After reading your blog, I think we ALL need to be more judicious. - Janet Barker-Evans

Is this why Twitter is down? LOL! Can't check to see if you unfollowed me. Hope not. You, Shel Israel, and Jeremiah Owyang were some of the very first people I followed way back before Twitter even had 100,000 people on the service. -- It's been a fun ride but, of course, the spammers always show up to make things difficult. - Brenda Young

How do you really know if you should be following someone until you follow them for a while? Sometimes I don't start talking to someone until I see a common interest, then I tweet back and we start talking, but that could be months later. I don't follow everyone back, but I follow back those that interact. I will unfollow once I see that won't happen, or I don't like their tweets. - Nadine Gilden

Twitter is victime of it own success, they have to re learn how to scal better, but more important they have to learn to share better. - abdellah

looks like you'll need to follow at least 343 people LOL - Shari Weiss

Friendfeed takes over for twitter finally? - Thomas Resing

@Patricia I don't want potential followers to be put off by who is following me. I wouldn't want them to think I care more about have n+1 followers than I do about what they're going to see if they review who I've allowed to follow me. Not to cull spammers suggests I care more about my experience than theirs. To a great extent, the quality of their experience will determine the quality... more... - Andrew Spong

1600 ... isn't that a big number too? It could be you'll think again before you follow every one here :) - Mario Gastaldi

Hi... do I get a follow? - Jason Mayoff

If you are already following me. Will you double follow me? :) - Brady

Hi Robert!! :) - Zaneology from Nambu

Still waiting for my Building 43 t-shirt. Not that I'm bitter or anything. ;-) - Donna Tuttle

Be sure to come by Dallas when you swing through Texas! - Zaneology from Nambu

Respect your opinion Robert but we'll have to agree to disagree. Yes I despise all the FakePornSpamBots who follow me. I block as many as I can, but can't keep up. Our views differ regarding what is important to SEE! I treasure home Home stream! I read it, refresh, read, refresh and in minutes I have the pulse of the world... at least MY world! EVERYONE has something of value to share at some point. If I UNfollow tens of thousands, I will miss so much worthy of consideration. - Arleen Anderson

Just another reason why it's good to diversify, I can still read your posts here. :) - Luis Sandoval

Cheers! - Jeff Wiant

Funny. I was catching up on news on Friendfeed for some odd reason. Great post; plenty for new and long-time users alike to consider there. - Alex Howard

I'm still waiting for the ultimate tool to manage my followings - I can only manage to keep up with about 1/3 of those following me. I'd love to see something that can tell me what friends of mine also follow those that I am or those that are following me. Maybe it's out there and I missed it? - TheDiva Rockin

Anyone interested in assessing the quality of their followers should check http://tweetblocker.com. It's pretty chastening. I aim to improve on my C rating. http://www.buzzom.com is a fun, fast way of decoupling yourself from non-reciprocal followers. You can select individuals to purge, or flush 50 random non-reciprocal followers at a time. - Andrew Spong

Robert, your timing could not be better. ;-) - Dave Martin

Great post, with perfect timing! Dang it, Dave Martin just took it off my lips. - Vadim Lavrusik

I hereby rename this comment thread neoTwitter <waves at followers> - Andrew Spong

/me waves - Kevin Johnson from iPhone

Awww, you gotta admit, saturation, the level of influence that you have, because of your high follower, count, is a tool of mass destruction. Seriously, did you think if you recommend an online service that people would not try it out? Was this an asassination attempt - Peter Murphy

I'm glad i'm not the only one who misses /me actions from IRC, Kevin. ;) - Eric Williams

With today's Twitter outage your timing is pretty stinking good, Robert. :) - Chris Cree

Now to get the rest of the world to follow that same logic when it comes to follow/unfollow! I only started being more selective as Twitter (and everyone else) started getting aggressive with spammers or anyone that even remotely did a single spammy tweet. Now if only there were the same contact management tools available for the other social networks as with Twitter. No matter what though, I'll continue updating my status when I eat a peanut butter sandwich! (With Fluff of course!). - Paul Monaco

Twitter couldn't handle the mass unfollow load, blew up... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

I've been followed by Robert Scoble :-) - David Finch

Follow iPolitics - Jacob Kobi Gamliel

Now I think that it is time to think about a way to make money using Twitter. - abdellah

@Mark, +1. When in doubt, the default delegation of blame goes to Robert. - Dave Martin

what is critical mass for twitter? Too few and nobody interacts, Too many and spam bots overwhelm, Is it 1K or 2K needed to get a real experience? - WarLord

Hmm can you unsubscribe from "comment notification via e-mail" in FF on a *specific* topic? This one :-) - Patrick Mackaaij

Of course I thonk it is a different experience if you hand follow reading each bio from the beginning then these mass purges are unnecessary - WarLord

I thought you already followed me. lol - Duane-PreppyDude

Not sure if you do, but here I am... - Aron Michalski

I am intrigued how RT addict will RT now?!! (ps: FF please don't post this to my twitter) - abdellah

I have been keeping my twitter account private a majority of the time lately b/c I am going through a divorce, but I really kinda like it. Have been reducing followers as well as the number I follow. - Jackson Miller

You should follow me here in FF and on Twitter too! - Karthi

hopefully most of us have proven our worth beyond commenting on this single thread - andy brudtkuhl

I like the way you operate, Scoble. Thanks in advance for the follow! - Dr. Frank Ramblings, Ph.D

Nice way of doing it... - Charles

No need to follow me unless you are actually going to engage in conversation with me. - Jeff Hurt

If you're already following and we comment, will you unfollow? *wink Hoping all is well your way! - Dayngr

4&5 are my favorite! Those are big reasons I decide to follow someone too. - Kelly Mitton

I'm lucky. Have never had Twitter spam. But then again I'm no Scoble either :) - Lori Reed

I am the peanut butter eating bot - Benjamin Spector

If you are already following me on ff does that mean I get a cookie or something? ;-) - Tomy Thomson

I'll add my name to the list. I came back to FF after the Twitter DoS outage. Maybe Scoble broke Twitter by all his unfollowing. He was the "glue" holding Twitter together. :-) - Tom Newman

Robert: Here's the bit you missed off the end of your title here: .... and put them in that group I don't read :-) - Jim Connolly

Hi Robert, greetings from germany. - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

add me for your social media and the practice of law news! - Rex Gradeless

Great post. I'm sure that some people might say that this kind of mass unfollowing will hurt Twitter, but I think it's just the opposite. Users who are following people they have no interest in just to pad their own numbers are diminishing the meaning of "following." - Mark Denton

@Ulrichmargarita - Ulrichmargarita

To stave off being unfollowed we need to comment here ya say? - Jason

you are already following me here... perhaps you'll consider re-following me on twitter too - Michelle

I don't know how you ever did it the other way. I am not in the tech world near as much as I used to be, which wasn't a whole lot. I just followed some random people I saw on SMugMug-related people on here when I started. You were one of them. I had no idea who you were (and still don't :-), but you talked about Twitter a lot too, which got me on there as well. Both services have really... more... - James Schipper

Follow away! - Ferdinand Perez

ok 400 jackpot - abdellah

Quality over quantity in all things, including (perhaps especially) Twitter. Loved your friending methodology -- those are the same rules I've applied since being on Twitter. Posted them onto Posterous to share the love with credit to you: http://lorilaurentsmith.posterous.com/ - Lori Laurent Smith

it's not about unfollowing, it's about filtering... - Barak Hachamov

I started out following everyone on Twitter.Then I got wise. When someone's stream becomes more noise than signal, that's when I consider unfollowing. I realize that threshhold is different for everyone, but I'll take "what I had for lunch" over a dozen bogus "marketing tips" any day. - Julie Barrett from twhirl

Well, I am trying to use FriendFeed more after watching Scoble's video on all those monitors he had up. I'm not a big consumer of information and don't own a TV but this online social stuff has been a perfect fit into my life because I can connect with people who are fountains of knowledge on a specific subject or are "human mashups". I like both! - Adria Richards

Why !? - Bertrand Soulier from iPhone

I've been reading al of this unfollow bits, and this point of yours: - Donna

Hey, I think that today you might make your point about FriendFeed being more interesting than Twitter. Hope you are well. Talked with @fransteps this morning and she is excited to work with you at Rackspace. - Kami Huyse

hi - George Desmyter

I would appreciate the follow, thanks! - Jeff Reisdorfer

I've been reading all of this un-follow posts lately, and this point of yours in WHY you unfollowed: "#2 Because I personally care about everyone I am following their noise level is a LOT lower. ." Is exactly what I do. And now I am starting to understand Friendfeed more. and using posterous to do aggregate posts. So is this overload making more people sit up and think first? I think so. At least the intelligent ones. - Donna

I love you Scoble! ;) - Carol Levesque

with all due sycophantism :) - jeff hammond

This is a great move, Robert. It's also a lot more human...I was almost convinced that you were the only person who could actually drink from the fire hose without choking. - Steffan Antonas

That sounds fair. After this morning, I've renewed my love for FriendFeed and Tweetworks. Until the next DDos attacks, of course. I will miss the fake porn stars, but I did when I moved from L.A. - Scott Pierce

Steffan; I agree...there is no way anyone else could do what Robert S. does. It's good to see him become human. - Robert Jones

This has been my problem for about the past six months. I routinely go in and unfollow, get the noise level down to where I want it, and then end up following back a bunch of new people, some of whom I'm incredibly grateful to get to know. When I had track, it was a whole lot easier to manage the stream, but I suspect even that tool would now be out of hand. I have a set of rules for... more... - Karoli

hee hee. i am commenting not so much to beg your follow but what a clever pitch:) - Tresha Thorsen

Robert - I have not read all 416 comments so if this was asked and you answered forgive me. What was the all of a sudden revelation that caused you to reverse stance on Twitter Followers? - Jeff Vreeland

It's difficult to maintain and filter a list on all the social networking sites. I cannot even imagine maintaining the kinds of lists you must deal with, Robert. - Jeremy Brooks

Dude, you broke Twitter! When you unfollowed all of your 100,000 the other day you pulled the rug right out from under it, so it fell down and now it can't reach its beer. :-) - Robert Morrison

Actually I felt rather sad being fav'ed by you on FriendFeed then dumped.. But again. I get more from you from FriendFeed, so oh well, stop talking about Following and Get on more with Tech! :P - Du Senyao Peter

Me Me! lol! - Bill McGehee

i like the idea of importing favorite tweets into friendfeed. i haven't used that favorite feature much because i haven't seen any real use in it. thanks! - Jonathan Blundell

When twitter is down I always wish I could tweet: checkout friendfeed. Nevertheless, how will following folk that leave a message here really improve the quality of your input? While I don't want to judge many of the fine folk on this thread, are they all that interesting? In other words, isn't this the start of the same problem you had on Twitter... - Jon Mountjoy

what like here? this is a comment :) - michelle harris

Barak - isn't filtering just unfollowing while pretending you're still following? ;) - Matthew Blaisdell

Well to bounce back on your Twitter is down comment I think it is time to watch this video again http://www.youtube.com/watch... Hilarious! - 77Agency

Robert, I'm glad you decided to stop auto-follow (finally). :) - Veronica Sopher

I'm in - Jeroen Sangers from Nambu

works for mw - Brendan Jackson from twhirl

Robert, but why clutter your FriendFeed stream? This comment is not to get you to courtesy follow me on FriendFeed, think you've established you've changed your thinking. :) - L.P. NEENZ FALEAFINE

OK, I have enough people to follow so I will close the comments on this thread. Thank you everyone, I will try to get to everyone today. - Robert Scoble

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IZEA Calls for Transparency, but Can Twitter Remain Pure? Ted ... - http://www.fastcompany.com/blog...

August 5 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Let's agree Sponsored Tweets is ethical. The question, then, is: is it desirable? I guess the answer depends on who you are and what you want. With Twitter, that could be about anything. - phil baumann

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lol [Disclosure: my lol was not sponsored by Coke or Pepsi]. - phil baumann

Hey, just thought of this: What about Sponsored FriendFeeds? - phil baumann

Desirable is a much better question to solve for, I admit. - This post was sponsored by Citrix Online. - Chris Brogan

Well, can sponsored Tweets be OK if the message/promotion is useful? - Daniel B. Honigman

I can't see a single way that a sponsored tweet would benefit me. Unless someone wanted to sponsor my tweets. Than I suppose it's all kinds of a good idea. Call it marketing media instead of social media, though. Until I start making money from it, I wont be overly tolerant of advertising [Your Ad Here] - motownmutt

There's a GREAT discussion about Sponsored Tweets on David Spinks blog here --> http://is.gd/24X8j -- There's lots of value in the comments section, including commentary from Ted himself. - Ryan Stephens

Chris - on the topic of Followers TODAY - should Sponsored Tweets be on that list? Do they build fellowship...or take it down? In other words, how do Sponsored Tweets increase followers? More specifically, the *right* kind of followers? - phil baumann

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Gladstone's no service Fish Restaurant

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The original was great for many years, but it's not the same anymore. It was also the top grossing restaurant in California for 15-20 years. I lost count. - Michael Fidler

This place sucked. I'll write about them eventually. - Chris Brogan

Like I said, the quality has gone way down. I haven't gone there in years because of it, but at one time, it was great and #1. Too bad. - Michael Fidler

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Google Suggest Displays the Inanities of Common Searches. Try "Do (insert group or individual here)" and see what you get.

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Inspired by a share from SofarsoShawn: http://friendfeed.com/funny-p... - Louis Gray

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*chuckles* - Ron Bailey

Some of these are _so bad_ and dumb too! - Louis Gray

"believe in dinosaurs" LOL - Mr Saturday Morning NFG

And some are kind of sad :*( - Geoff Schultz

The Id is finally documented. - Todd Hoff

Such important questions... - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

weirdos... :) - Tim Hoeck

LOL - Scott Bradley

This is the best. I've been doing my own variations for about twenty-one minutes now. Oy! - Chris Brogan

Until now, I didn't care about those things in relation to Palin, now, I have to know! - Gary Walter (gwalter)

My favorite: "do white people smell" A sign of someone who doesn't spend much time around hot, sweaty white people? - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

That is awesome. - Stephan Miller

This a great game for a lot of initial 'question' phrases. Try "how do", "why", and similar phrases for much hilarity. - Joel Webber

Hilarity indeed, I just got "Why do men have nipples" and surprisingly "Why so serious" with 81mill results! Thankfully the "Why did chris brown beat up rihanna" suggestion from "why" only shows 1.8mill results. ;) Strange, Strange World. - Travis Koger

I'm feeling lucky, indeed. - Josh Haley

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WordPress Switches to Hourly Pinging, Tells No One - http://www.blogherald.com/2009...

July 21 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Ooooh, so not only a change that impacts us as WordPress-using bloggers, but a bit of a coder bitch-slap-fight to go with it. And yet, think about that: if you're not a code monkey, f-you, it's open source. Deal with it. (whoa) - Chris Brogan

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A Quick and Inconclusive List of Software I Like - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/a-quick...

July 10 from chrisbrogan.com - Comment - Like - Share

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Thanks for sharing - Kevin Cooper

No Evernote? I live by mine for clipping and sharing info privately between my team! - Lynette Young

I love Evernote. Skipped a few things, I guess. - Chris Brogan

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Since When Are Blogs Not Social Media? - http://www.copyblogger.com/blogs-s...

July 10 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Keep worrying about labels, others. I'll be doing stuff. - Chris Brogan

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Agree Chris. Blogs are a part of social media IMHO. Blogs are a destination platform for 'socialising' (excuse the NZ English spelling) or environment for people to interact. See every 'comments' section at the end of a blog post. - iconic88

@iconic88 you can also socialize content among blogs and platforms. It's awesome to carry conversations across media and communities/networks. - Valeria Maltoni

Doing stuff like blogging! This just demonstrates how much education is still left to do about social media. We have a long way to go, and just when we get there, everything will change, again - Ken Burbary

Thanks Valeria. Yes you can indeed. - iconic88

if there are more than 1 person it's social. If it is communication it's media. - Roland Hesz

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@chrisbrogan But but you said I was a Rock Star? :(

July 10 - Comment - Like - Share

Yep, but it never drove you any traffic, so what good was it? - Chris Brogan

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How I Tweet: Just the FAQs - http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2009...

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Did he just compare himself to Tiger Woods? - Venkat Balasubramani

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Venkat: that's a Guy Kawasaki trick. If you want your brand to be better you must tie your brand to someone with an even better brand. Who has a better brand than Tiger? - Robert Scoble

The Tiger Woods of Twitter? Uh...is there some sort of award for number or quality of tweets? Who should I be bribing? - Tyler Hurst

Tyler: bring cupcakes to @biz and @ev :-) - Robert Scoble

I wonder if @foiledcupcakes delivers that far...they are fantastic. - Tyler Hurst

I love being reminded just how much an ass Kawasaki is. - Allan Jenkins

Arrogance aside, at least he's upfront about everything he does. I appreciate that much. - Chris Duffy

It will be a happy day when people stop typing LOL unnecessarily in so, so many online conversations. - Tyler Hurst

WTF? how true.but IMHO that isn't gonna happen. LOL - RAD Moose

Know what? I NEVER thought about that. Robert's point about bringing the brand up higher. Holy crap. BTW, my version of a "How I Tweet" faq will post in a few days. - Chris Brogan

That's a site in the making howitweet.com. I think most people would find the feedback from users without massive followings surprisingly refreshing. - Benjamin Taylor

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Hungover Chris Brogan

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OUCH - BEX

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Errrrghhhhhh. I know that telling wince. - Grayson Daughters

Tell that water to stop moving!!!!! - Mike Lewis

I think you mean the ground, Mike. Tell the ground to stop moving... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Can't you make that camera shutter any quieter!?! - Mark Jepsen

Make the damn Pine trees stop yelling! - Brent - Long Live Rock

God I just laughed at the pine trees one... : ) - Chris Brogan

Please dear Lord - shut My beard up - Brent - Long Live Rock

Why are these drawstring so WHITE!?!?!? - CAJ, somewhere else

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Making a physical book free, too - http://www.longtail.com/the_lon...

July 7 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Clever bastard. - Chris Brogan

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no wonder we are confused - http://levite.wordpress.com/2009...

July 7 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

I'm the one who forgot the laptop. : ) - Chris Brogan

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Turtle the size of a shoe

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He's not really blue. - Chris Brogan

Mona Nomura

Chrome for Mac is finally here -- anyone running it??? #fb

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Finally! about to - Shevonne

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Says it's still in development. =( - Shevonne

Really? It's finally out? I'm running Chromium.app built from trunk yesterday, it definitely seems more robust. - Victor Ganata

It's the dev release! - Mona Nomura from fftogo

I've been using it for a couple months now off and on. I'm waiting for flash support before I really start using it. - Mathew™ one of a kind

What does this give me over Safari/Nightly Webkit? - Jesse Stay

Follow releases of Chromium here. http://www.manu-j.com/blog... - Mathew™ one of a kind

Link or it didn't happen! - Eric Florenzano

@jessestay the big thing about google chrome for me is that it's sandboxed - JR Ignacio

Chrome is built on webkit. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Eric: http://www.manu-j.com/blog... - Mathew™ one of a kind

I am still going to stick with Webkit Safari until the official beta release. - TheHenry

Matthew: Thanks - Eric Florenzano

It would be nice if it updated automatically like WebKit nightly. - Eric Florenzano

Henry, you will want to. The current builds are Alpha and there are many things missing like flash support. There isn't enough there right now for it to be used full time. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Yep, because most of the content on the web uses flash, so there is no point. That is why I am waiting. - TheHenry

I still don't get what it gives me over Safari 4/Nightly Webkit. What does "sandboxed" give me? - Jesse Stay

I've been living without Flash for quite some time now, guess it depends on what sites you visit. Not sure what process separation really gets you when you're running an unstable piece of software, but that's what Chrome has that no one else does. - Victor Ganata

Jesse, maybe this will help you understand a bit: http://www.pcworld.com/reviews... - Mathew™ one of a kind

Mathew, that still doesn't tell me what it gives me over Safari/Nightly Webkit - Jesse Stay

Right now, I don't think separate processes get you much, since the whole thing isn't particularly stable. But it's definitely usable. - Victor Ganata

I can't wait to use it!!!!!!!!!!! - Mona Nomura from fftogo

Well here is a little comparison. Maybe this will give you a bit of what you want. http://mwolk.com/blog... - Mathew™ one of a kind

From what I understand Sandboxing makes the browser more secure. This http://blog.chromium.org/2008... explains how it works on the Windows platform and they're replicating the same model on OS X. - JR Ignacio

Mathew, based on that, I get the feel that Safari is the better choice. Being around longer, even with sandboxing the length of time seems like Safari will be a bit more secure. Regarding speed, it seems like Safari still somewhat out-performs Chrome. I'm not sure what the big deal is about Chrome for Mac - Google hype? - Jesse Stay

The other thing I don't see in that comparison are developer tools available. Webkit has amazing developer tools built in - Jesse Stay

Not supported on PPC. - Chris Baskind

There is no big deal about Chrome for Mac yet really (other then it is coming). But, Chrome has been better then anything else in Windows. It is basically a wait and see game. But, to be honest there are things that a Chrome will most likely do (little things) that Firefox does that Safari doesn't that keeps me from using Safari and that in the end is what will make Chrome overall better then Safari for me. And the way Chrome handles process is a plus as well. - Mathew™ one of a kind

I too like the way Chrome handle processes. Given that my Mac only has 2GB of RAM running Safari all day really kills my Mac's efficiency. - Vinko

I generally liked the experience of Chrome on Windows which is why I'm looking forward to the Mac version. The other thing with Chrome is that when a tab/window hangs, it doesn't crash the whole browser. I haven't seen any other browser that can do that well on OS X. - JR Ignacio

Yeah, for me Safari eats as much RAM as Firefox. And that is with 5+ tabs open in Firefox and all those plugins and a couple tabs in Safari and no plugins. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Mathew is that with Safari 4? Nightly Webkit build? - Jesse Stay

Does it do what? - Mathew™ one of a kind

Not a day too early. Maybe in a year or so it will be my default browser. For now I'll stick to Firefox. - Rutger Blom

I didn't know! Will have to check it out. - Chris Brogan

BLAZING. - Mona Nomura

First time on Chrome - blown away by speed. Beats nightly build, Safari 4, Opera, and what's the other one...oh ya. Firefox. ;) - Mona Nomura

glad you mac folks finally "caught up" with us normal computer users! OHNOHEDIDNT - sean percival

Yeah, it is hella fast. - Mathew™ one of a kind

OH NO YOU DI'INT SEAN PERCIVAL!! - Mona Nomura

I've been using Chrome on my other computer since Chrome came out in beta. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Sean that's my point - we never needed to catch up. We have Safari. - Jesse Stay

have fun on safari, im sitting on chrome!! :P - sean percival

Wooooo-wee I LOVE CHROME! - Mona Nomura

how is it? the last mac build i tried didnt have multiple tabs - sean percival

I'm sorry, but I get angry using Safari. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Multiple tabs are here - options / preferences are blank LOL But I don't care, it's blazing fast!! - Mona Nomura

Trying it at the moment. Once they finish it off it's going to be a very good browser. - Bryce, Low in Sodium

Still no crash! - Mona Nomura

So why are you all still using Mac if you don't need Safari? You know Chrome works on Linux too. - Jesse Stay

I'm not a developer and all the apps I need are Mac/Win only. :) - Mona Nomura

Um...because OS X is a far better OS then any other that I have used. I never choose OS X because of Safari. I chose it because it is faster, more stable and the programs I use run better in OS X. - Mathew™ one of a kind

There are a couple of things that I like about Mac. Safari isn't one of them. Both Apple and Microsoft should stop developing browsers. The community can develop them. Open source and cross platform. - Rutger Blom from email

Rutger I don't get what people don't like about Safari. It's the fastest browser out there right now, has terrific developer options, great interface, and most of all, it's webkit. - Jesse Stay

Chrome is webkit, too. And frankly, much faster than Safari 4 and nightly build. - Mona Nomura

Mona, that's what I wanted to know. Thanks. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: I do like Safari but I tend to agree that one does not buy a mac for Safari. You get Safari on windows too. Chrome on Mac feels fast but its also incomplete - Kiran Patchigolla

Np, Jesse :) Anyone else having problems un-starring? Also, on a Windows machine I would not use Safari. Nor would I Hackintosh or dual boot. - Mona Nomura

Speed isn't the most important thing about a browser for me. Here is one big reason why I don't like Safari. When I close a browser I want the tabs that I had open, open again when I reopen the browser. And a bonus reason. All the plugins that I have with Firefox. Plugins are also the same reason why I didn't use Chrome full time when I was Windows only. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Safari will reopen tabs from last session - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Mathew, what Rob said - I use a plugin for that. - Jesse Stay

Chrome on the Mac feels faster than Safari 4 beta, but it's definitely not as stable, although it's crashing far less than it did. I heard Safari was going to move to separate processes, too, at some point. - Victor Ganata

I tried out that plugin. But, it still wasn't worth me switching from Firefox to Safari. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Still hasn't crashed. Victor - that's what nightly build is :) - Mona Nomura

me - Glen Campbell, B.A.

me too - Snehal Shinde

Jesse, no one's trying to convince you to give up Safari. This is a preliminary Alpha release, a first chance to play with Google's browser. If you don't want to do that, no one's forcing you to. We're all trying to LEARN what the differences are. - Glen Campbell, B.A.

Chromium has never crashed on me (I'm sure it will next time I use it though) it just doesn't have that Flash support I want. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Glen, I'm not asking anyone to convince me. I simply wanted to know what the differences were, and why the hype, in regards to the Mac itself. (I understand why on Windows) - Jesse Stay

No way. Not yet. - l0ckergn0me

Yeah, its way too early. - Kiran Patchigolla

Chris it took awhile, but you completely converted me to Safari from Firefox. It's going to take a lot to convince me to switch elsewhere. I'm excited to see if Chrome has the capability to do that, but yes, it seems too early to decide. - Jesse Stay

I am all about speed - and Chrome gives me *just* that. - Mona Nomura

The way I see it. If you don't care about Plugins then Safari is fantastic. - Mathew™ one of a kind

I mean, it's a huge improvement. It's only crashing about once a day for me right now. It used to crash about once an hour. - Victor Ganata

We like Chrome. Works fine for us. Better than Firefox 3 when it first came out. :-) - Discount Bloggers

Nope, lost interest in the project. - Richard A.

I want Chrome for GNU/Linux! - Ryo / Fuck Facebook

Ryo: Linux version is available also. Early version, but it's there. - Diego Barros 

it still won't give me the download page :( - Marco Massarotto

Diego, no GNU/Linux version is showing. I can only register my mail address for getting informed when a linux version is available. - Ryo / Fuck Facebook

Roy, It's not the one here? (see further down, Linux section) http://dev.chromium.org/getting... - Diego Barros 

No Diego, that's Chromium. Chrome is build on this, but this is not the real deal. I want the real Chrome for Linux. - Ryo / Fuck Facebook

Ryo, Isn't it the following: i386 http://www.google.com/chrome... and amd64 http://www.google.com/chrome... - JR Ignacio

I'm using it. Flash support? can i haz it? no youtube or friendfeed video - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

no flash. fail - Tyler Gillies

testing Chrome on OSX but this version is very incomplete (not really usable as main browser yet). love Chrome on XP and will be switching to Chrome on Mac when code is complete. - timepilot

download it at http://www.google.com/chrome... - Franz Sittampalam from IM

Trying it out now. - Kreg Steppe

I will be when I get home tonight and download it. - Gerard Lagana

huh? - andy brudtkuhl

Hm? - Mona Nomura

Should I switch to this vs? Firefox? Are their all the nice extensions? - orionstarr

Joseph - Chrome is still in the early early phases (for Mac) with no extensions. Heck, we can't even set preferences. But it is BLAZING. - Mona Nomura from IM

FINALLY!!!!! - Zach Landes

Mona - i think you're blazing something else ;) - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

Just say no to drugs!! - Mona Nomura from IM

I do! i'm just sayin' - The Chrome ain't so hot on the Mac - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

Different strokes for different folks, it works better than the other browsers for me. Again, I am all about speed. - Mona Nomura

I'm waiting for at least beta too--I have far too many Firefox plugins to give up. - Kelly W.

I was running it for a little while, but I couldn't install the FF bookmarklet, and can't view videos yet, so I had to shut it down for now. But I'm glad the initial version is available, and I'm sure I'll use it from time to time. - Cheryl Jones

Just heard a new browser coming out, "Rust"... - orionstarr

Mac browser run down: FIREFOX + Features and customization - memory footprint SAFARI + fast, lightweight - lack of plug ins CHROME + blazin' fast - total lack of features, mediocre stability. I have all three browsers on my computer, but almost always use safari. It doesn't crash on me, get bogged down much, and its straightforward. I would use firefox if only it weren't such a resource sucking PIG. And Chrome would (will?) top them all once it becomes stable and extensible (?). - Zach Landes

I didn't know it was here - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

I tried on GNU/Linux and it didn't let me login to Google or Yahoo. Quick to load websites and works quickly enough, but I'd like to at least be able to check email with it! :/ - Rudolf Olah

Ryo, my link was correct. That is Google Chrome for Linux.Very early release, of course, but it is Google Chrome. - Diego Barros 

yes, it crashes when I load an attachment in gmail. Also it doesn't keep state of my selection ofthe drop down list . I am using it now. - Dh'ennis Dömingö

Never satisfied with my browser, I switch constantly between Firefox, Safari, Fluid, often having at least 2 open at a time: FF for general work (because of extensions), a Fluid instance for Friendfeed, Gmail... or other sites I leave open on desktop always. Hoping Chrome can find a useful role in this mess. - Brad Kligerman

Bump for Ken. - Mona Nomura

UR Da Best! I'll give it a go. - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

Arguing which tool is best based solely on user preference is akin to arguing why a size 10 shoe is better than a size 11. It's user determined, so there's not going to be a "right" answer. What I don't see is what features Chrome for Mac offers that differentiate it from Safari nightlies. At their core, both browsers are built on the same "platform" - Webkit. To draw a different analogy... one is a Buick and one is a Chevy. Now... somebody tell me what feature(s) DIFFERENTIATE the two. - Kevin Donahue

A Buick and a Chevy is like Opera and IE. Clunky, out of date, inefficient, and out of style. Chrome's JS rendering beats nightly hands-down. Multi-processing tabs ≠ platforms. :) - Mona Nomura from IM

So... without the car commentary (thanks, btw)... Chrome for Mac has better JS handling. I remember seeing that early in the month, w/ V8 clocking 9% faster than Nitro, but I didn't see that quantified in time. For example, if a page load is 4 seconds, how much faster is the Chrome JS... 0.38 seconds faster? How long does it take me to blink? 0.5 seconds? Regardless, I appreciate the point. The dev release handles JS faster than the nightlies. Are there any differences? Start up time, etc? - Kevin Donahue

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Covering a small city - http://www.scripting.com/stories...

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I just blogged a post taking this a bit further. I like the premise. - Chris Brogan

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