Christian Anderson

Yep. I'm really liking the directions Microsoft has been taking with their web sites. Bing is fantastic and this looks really good, too. - Akiva Moskovitz

The one thing Microsoft needs to get away from is underlines for links. No one likes 'em, no one wants 'em. Either change colors or, in a block-oriented layout like this, have the backgrounds of each block change color. That'd be a far more interactive UX right there. - Akiva Moskovitz

I hate it. It's too big and full of stuff I don't want, and won't resize properly. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Resizes like a champ in Chrome Mac. And as for content, well, it's a generic portal. Most likely if you sign in, you'll be able to customize it 'til your heart's content. - Akiva Moskovitz

Mona Nomura

He proposed.

November 15 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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? - Rodfather

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?? - Spidra Webster

??? - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

???? - sean percival

???WELL???? - WorldofHiglet

Chris Prillio proposed????? - Roberto Bonini

?????????!? - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

????¿¿¿¿??? - Spidra Webster

??? O_o - John Wang

!!! eeeeeeeeeeeeeee! (sound of breaking hearts of online geeks everywhere :P) - Adam Lasnik

Who? what? - Tudor Bosman

& YOU SAID??? - sofarsoShawn

Congratulations - J. Abdul-Qahhar

You're still thinking, right? - Ruud van Wijngaarden

*taps foot* well? :) - Jemm

*turns up unrequited love-esque country and western song on the radio of his pickup and dreams of what might have been*.............. - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

OUT WITH IT NOMURA! - Mo Kargas

Lucky for Google that it's not that into you! :-) - Daniel Dulitz

????? - DGentry

Did she just drop that and run outta here without responding and explaining? Man. There outta be a law ........ - Martha

Maybe she ran off to Las Vegas to be wed by the Elvis... - Jemm

???????????????????????????????????? - Micah Wittman

Mona!!!! Spill????!!!!! - Rachel Lea Fox

Wtw???? - Kevin Fox from iPhone

Again??? - Jim Norris

He went to Jared's?!?!?!?! - JA Castillo

He went to Jared's!$%!! [swoon] - Akiva Moskovitz

The end of this subject better not be "...that we go get some burgers tonight." - Kevin Fox

*double-take* - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Or "a race around the world in 80 days" - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

:-) - Ruchira S. Datta

You misunderstood me. - Cristo

still no answer.. !! - Peter Dawson

The Jared's comments are why we flock to FriendFeed. +100's to both JA and Akiva. - Bryan R. Adams

Isn't Jared that dude in the Subway commercials? - Glen Mistletoe

So does anyone know WTH is going on? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? - Jason Huebel

I'm not sure. Mona has maintained radio silence for a long time - I hope she is ok. - WorldofHiglet

Maybe she eloped? - Jim Norris

No. - Mona Nomura

well, at least she's alive. :) - Tudor Bosman

Barely haha - Mona Nomura

Mona! Keeping it secret or are you going to tell us? - Rachel Lea Fox

No to everything in this thread - especially Pirillo. GROSS. I'd rather eat a tub of year old bacon grease. And thanks everyone. - Mona Nomura

urrrr…she talks - Glen Mistletoe

Wait, what? - joey

I normally never share personal stuff but this caught me so off guard I Tweeted it as a knee-jerk reaction. Stupid mistake I ever made. But now I know. And knowing is half the battle! - Mona Nomura

*checks TMZ for latest Mona gossip* - Spidra Webster

More like 'stupidest Tweets EVER dot com' ;) - Mona Nomura

Eat some menudo.. it'll make you feel better ;) - Rodfather

Hahahah fo sho. - Mona Nomura

well that tweet made me do a double take... :) - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

It was a fun tweet anyway. *hugs* - Rachel Lea Fox

WHAT?!!! - @CrystalinaB

so you're NOT getting married? damn, it would have been a fun wedding to go to :) - Tudor Bosman

No I'm not, but when I *DO* get married, you bet your butt it'd be fun. And all my FF peeps are invited. Wedding favors would be like conference schwag: t-shirts and totes. Food would be like conference food: gummi bears and Swedish Fish. FTW. - Mona Nomura

You could get your wedding photos from Twitpic... Can I also suggest the #monasgettinhitched hashtag? - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

Makes me wonder if anyone's invented a wedding bouquet gun for geek brides. - Spidra Webster

I'll be seated at the foe-turned-friend table. - Cristo

Hashtag needs to be shorter for RT value - something amongst the lines of #killme (I'm just kidding) - Mona Nomura

Bacon cake, I hope? - Tudor Bosman

#shotgun :) - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

#vegas - Mona Nomura

I'll be there if it ever happens Mona.! :) - Rachel Lea Fox

Awwww! I wish I knew you and Kevin sooner - I would've TOTALLY crashed ;) - Mona Nomura

Tudor, the cake would be THIS ONE. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Mona Nomura

Mona & (fill in the blank) - The Vegas Wedding Conference - Speakers include.... - Rachel Lea Fox

Mona, me too! You would have been welcome to crash!! I would have even leaked you the info! ;-) - Rachel Lea Fox

Keynote: FF RealTime Widget ...Rachel <3 - Mona Nomura

*lol* A conference themed wedding would be totally awesome! Would the groom be required to attend Mona 101 earlier in the day before the ceremony? - Rachel Lea Fox

No, his only duty would be to make sure there are enough power strips and the WiFi is working ok LOL - Mona Nomura

Oo. I want a badge.. and a title. We'll toss our business cards in fishbowls to see who gets the center piece. - Rodfather

Nice!! - Rachel Lea Fox

lol that's not nice, Mona. If you did marry Chris, you too could have two 30" monitors connected to a tricked out Mac Pro. Not a bad deal, there. - Danny Minick

I would have an MsSurface for folks to exchange contact info. And quit bringing up Pirillo - seriously, I'd rather eat a tub of year old bacon grease (like I said up there) or even a garbage bag full of popcorn jelly beans (which I HATE with a passion) than marry him. Seriously. GROSS. - Mona Nomura

Or drink an entire gallon of egg whites. With pickle juice. Mixed with Spam. Omg I just threw up in my mouth. - Mona Nomura

Not to mention he's already married - Mo Kargas

Who is this lucky Pirillo fellow? - Jim Norris

Or sardine bones mixed with corned beef drenched in beet juice. - Mona Nomura

Really? - Mo Kargas

Or wheat grass juice with raw broccoli leaves with chopped up three day old liver. And worms. YUCK. - Mona Nomura

All I have to say is...I'm relieved that the rumors of your engagement have been greatly exaggerated. :D - tinypants - Hagitha of FF from FreshFeed

Dude. NPH is on Twitter. omgomgomfg. @actuallyNPH #SWOON - Mona Nomura

NPH proposed to Mona? *runs to TMZ* - Spidra Webster

ONLY IN MY WILDEST DREAMS OMG. - Mona Nomura

NPH is legendary.... And yay! Mona's ok! Woot! - John Wang

I love you guys <3 - Mona Nomura

Define "he". - Rochelle

*cracks knuckles* What's this about a proposal? - ha3rvey (chee-la-key-les)

Does this mean you are still available? ;) - joey

Best man speech would be a powerpoint presentation, I assume? - Kevin Fox

Invitations done in ASCII Art!! - Rachel Lea Fox

don't forget the chorus of "Wind Beneath My Wings" played by an orchestra of iPhone Leaf Trombones and iPhone Shakuhachis. - Martha from BuddyFeed

In group photos, everyone *bitchlips* - Rodfather

Ocarina FTW! - Mona Nomura

Nomura no-more-a? - Christian Anderson from iPhone

Mona's marrying Mr. Bacon Man?? - imabonehead

The non-proposal heard 'round the world. Mona, we await your next over-tweet :) - Micah Wittman

troll - Glen Mistletoe

She's a trollette thankyouverymuch. - Micah Wittman

lol - imabonehead

I'd prefer "troll-op" - Spidra Webster

:-) Spidra wins. - Mathew A. Koeneker

+10 Spidra - Glen Mistletoe

Troll-op-erative. The most covert kind of troll. - Martha

Louis Gray

A good example... Truth vs. Marketing. Which is reality? :)

September 18 - Comment - Like - Share

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How I feel... vs. how I present how I feel. :) - Louis Gray

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Louis, you look like you're a twenty-some year old college student in the first picture versus an adult. - Jimminy

Woah:s - Sardar Mohkim Khan

No he does, but I think it's also time you get some sl... Sleep is a waste of time for the unproductive. I don't think you've been unproductive lately get some sleep. - Jimminy

I'm looking left. I'm looking right. Back. forth. back. forth. In the space between truth and fiction I am playing PONG. - Micah Wittman

lol this is classic - and very brave of you to post ;) - Chris Saad

Brave, indeed. The arched brow says everything. :) - Mark Evans

*nods to Holden* :) - Micah Wittman

The first is my "old Twitter default avatar face". :) - Louis Gray

And Jimminy, one benefit of ignoring jetlag and working both time zones... Four meals! It's dinner time again! - Louis Gray

The one on the left looks like Louis "poor college student" Gray and the right is the CEO of blah-blah company. - imabonehead

Louis, I just ate my 4th meal without jetlag or working in two time zones, benefit of not sleeping more than 4 hours a day. - Jimminy

I need to change your advisor photo on http://socialtoo.com/about... now - Jesse Stay

Make sure it is the second one then, Jesse. I always hated that other photo you took. It just won't die. - Louis Gray

What are you saying about my photography skills? :-) - Jesse Stay

In the left one, Louis looks Vulcan. :-> - Kurt Kringle

Of course, I could use this one: http://friendfeed.com/jworthi... or this one: http://friendfeed.com/lasse... - Jesse Stay

Jesse makes me wonder abt @guykawasaki pic in your socialtoo about page is it the left or rght pic of Guy ;) - Sudha Jamthe

wait. is that a bib in the first pic? :) - Christian Anderson

Here are some others: http://www.ibtimes.com/content... :-) - Todd Hoff

Now he's been to London we're seeing the emergence on the world circuit of the true LG (face) brand. - Thomas Power

I thought that first shot was your inspector Clouseau impersonation. - Mark Krynsky

That's my #didntsleeponthejet look, Mark. - Louis Gray

Ok...but can you say "Does your dog bite" with a French accent for me anyways? - Mark Krynsky

Let's turn this into a meme! I just posted my "truth vs. fiction" here: http://friendfeed.com/got-mem... - April Russo (app103)

The first pic looks like that of an Apple developer who's just got his iPhone app rejected from the App store. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Haha, superb! - Kol Tregaskes

is it much like turning up for an executive type job interview in t-shirt and jeans or in a suit. You're the same person underneath. - Ian May

they might be both marketing avatars - left youtube vs right linkedin - lol - barbarars

Obviously BOTH are reality. The right one is not a stunt model is it? ;-) - Kristi Colvin

isn't it true that no one has one single face? - Martha from BuddyFeed

It was an honour to photograph you Louis, hopefully something for you to remember your London trip by - John Cassidy

Boom-Boom-Wow - Cheyenne

We all try to show our best side to the outside world, particularly when it's with regard to business. But is it really disingenuous to show a happy face any more than it would be to show a scowl? Neither represents you or the collective us 100% of the time. Does this mean we need a chart with all our moods on it to greet potential clients? :) I do like the arched brow. hehe - Sheryl

Sorry to say this, Louis, but I will attempt to run away if I see someone coming to me bearing that smile you have on the second photo. I'd be like, "Darnit, here's another salesman wanting to pressure me into buying some thingamajig again..." No offense, Louis. But even for marketing, I really think you can do without the oh-so-friendly smile :-) - Pandu ● IT Optimizer from fftogo

Both! - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Louis is a pro smiler :) - Steve Chou

Both - but the guy on the couch looks like more fun ;) - beautiful world

lol! XD - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Alfredo

What's that? - http://9gag.com/gag/13481/

October 28 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Soccer with Happy Fun Ball? - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

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They are jumping into a giant slicer. - Mark Layton

Kids are biohazards. Or nuclear. - Admiral Anika

Jump over giant nuclear ball. - Michelle Martinez

biohazard restroom? - Alfredo

wait, you have a leapfrog-over-the-drum-of-hazardous-waste area too? - Christian Anderson

It could be 'we cheer for biohazard drums' - Michelle Martinez

Yay! Let's get irradiated! - Rochelle

Jesus died for your plutonium. - Ciaoenrico

Radiation here grants powers. - Sean Oliver

(jeff)isageek

Introducing the FriendFeed Team - http://bub.blicio.us/1111126...

May 29 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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hey, where are louis gray and Scoble? :) kidding:) - Christian Anderson

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I helped push them into the corner, does that count, Christian? :) - Louis Gray

hahaha :) - Christian Anderson

I LOLed when I saw you in the next picture on Brian's post. - Christian Anderson

Just what we figured: A bunch of geeks and a hot chick. (runs screaming 'Bear, Bear, Bear'...............) - Molly

Why is the guy on the right playing with a toy guitar? - Gilbert Harding

So which one of them is Kol again? ;) - CAJ, somewhere else

Tudor has my green hands. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

I never ceased to be amazed by how so much is done by so few. Everyone in that picture rocks. I'll even give Camilla a wee fistbump. - CAJ, somewhere else

Seriously, I agree, Alan. - Molly

Bump for the good times. - Mark Krynsky

ahh memories - (jeff)isageek

Steve Gillmor

since we all know FriendFeed is a parasite of Twitter, it would appear that if MG is right that Twitter is a ghost town. The innovation halting, however, is a ticking time bomb for Facebook.

October 17 - Comment - Like - Share

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FriendFeed would be fine without Twitter in my opinion... I block most tweets anyway. Why do you have the impression that it is a parasite of Twitter? I am not happy about the lack of support and innovation here now though. But I'm gonna ride this boat till it grounds because it's still the best ship to be on, IMO. - Lindsay

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Yeah. /deep voice - Josh Haley

MG is missing the conversations in FF, which were not a parasite of Twitter. In fact, the FF faithful deliberately avoid commenting on Twitter-originated content, which I think is a significant driver of FF's slow downward spiral. - Christian Anderson

Part of the fun is knowing that the Twitter-only readers don't read my responses, don't get the value of a threaded conversation and are yet again just blowing their bugle into their own beadspread. - Aron Michalski from BuddyFeed

The twitter V Friendfeed rivalry is fascinating to watch from the outside but I'll say that my engagement is far higher on twitter and the boycott of tweets does the FF no favors. Could just as easily be symbiotic but whatever ;) - WarLord

To be clear, are these /conversations/ -truly- threaded or are we reduced to lumping another row on the bonfire of banality? - Jay Cuthrell

Well, point taken but having to go look for replies on another page or a column of a client seems counterproductive. As it stands it doesn't matter with me as I often will post and never have any response. I guess I'm not interesting or inflammatory enough. - Aron Michalski from BuddyFeed

I like sharing with FF as a mechanism to push back into Twitter. I periodically stop importing Twitter into FF. I've tried FF as a dumping ground and didn't like it longer term. Facebook seems more about presenting applications with annoying graphics in front of me. Reminds me why I stopped watching TV. Facebook will likely be next. - Jay Cuthrell

the point is, ff is no deader than twitter. neither is. where's stream splicing? - Steve Gillmor

Steve it hurts my feelings that not only don't you tweet on twitter, but you have given up on mp3 files too! And the irony is that the TriCaster is a vestige of the Amiga... - Michael Pinto

Many people hide Twitter in FriendFeed, and watch Twitter somewhere else. - Louis Gray

Interesting...Scoble pretty much (unless I just misunderstood) said the reverse.He thinks FF is the ghost town and Twitter is the place to be. I didn't realize either had problems. Both seem just as active to me, but I'm just a user too. - George Gray

posting Dare's FB comment here: Dare Obasanjo That's a bogus statement and you know it. Friendfeed was a Twitter app that lots of people used. People have moved on to other apps since the FB purchase (Brizzly?). This isn't a reflection on Twitter just a sign that people no longer treat Friendfeed as a primary destination for conversations around microcontent - Steve Gillmor

Interesting that Dare's comment is on Facebook, not Brizzly? Once FB solves the orphan comment problem, many will move there. For now, I see little difference in FF since the acquisition except for frozen development, as MG points out. Brizzly or Seesmic or Threadsy do not provide a replacement for FF, at least for me, at least not yet. What has changed is the time FB has to bridge the... more... - Steve Gillmor

Michael I tweet on twitter thru here, just like others use Tweetie, etc. I haven't given up on mp3 but rather moved to mp4. YouTube is currently not providing an RSS feed for my stream, and the approval process for downloads seems stuck for the last few episodes. I used my Amiga and Toaster until they stopped supporting them, and the Tricaster goes well beyond the Toaster. - Steve Gillmor

i had to remove twitter from friendfeed to prevent doubleposting on facebook. (as if there were no problems in our world) - kosmar

kosmar don't understand your problem. I post here, it goes to Twitter, which pipes it to Facebook. However, Facebook comments to my posts are orphaned on Facebook. - Steve Gillmor

Steve, I can't believe how many comments missed the semantics of the post - that the pointy end of the stick was jabbing at Twitter. It may be a style thing I'm already used to, I don't know. :) - Micah Wittman

steve, well i want all ff lifestream aggregation be on facebook - but the ff app on facebook only posts "posts" on the wall, which look ugly and therefore are less conversational it seems. i would prefer to have my fb-status changed by the items the ff app pushes (like twitter app does) - best twitter to facebook seems tweetpo.st (but is handicapped by twitter follower ratio issues at... more... - kosmar

… orphaned comments are one big problem. if all would be wave (or maybe pshb), that could be fixed, i guess. - but then, if someone talks about you on the phone, that will forever be orphaned anyway (i do hope so) - kosmar

it just seems to me having recently tried ff in more frequency that with facebook and twitter it is far easier to request contact and it feels more direct - unless i am missing a way to have this dynamic in ff - Alexander Kitingan

Network effects suggest its wise to work with many networks, not against them. Tis a bit arbitrary and capricious for a user to 'prefer' one nascent platform over another. - Just some guy

Christian Anderson

FanSnap Blog & Blog Archive & MLB Playoffs: Road to the World Series - http://www.fansnap.com/blog...

October 9 from StumbleUpon - Comment - Like - Share

Here are the MLB playoffs in one, handy calendar. Down below, there's ticket availability and ticket prices for the upcoming games as well as wins and losses for the ones that have been played. - Christian Anderson

Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Where is this FriendFeed in-crowd I keep hearing about and what do I have to do to to get into it? I'm sick of not having any comments or likes on my junk. I think I'm just going to quit FriendFeed.

September 27 - Comment - Like - Share

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Now, now, Rahsheen.... - Kamilah Gill

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Last time i tried to 'like' your junk sir... the police were called, remember? - Johnny Worthington

Do you get a plaque if you get in? - Mo Kargas

If you posted your junk, I'm sure I would comment. - Andrizzle Gizzle

See what I mean? This was posted 12 minutes ago and only has 6 likes and 6 comments. If I was part of the inner circle of FF, it would have a bajillion likes and comments already. This site is just a popularity contest. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

NOW IT ONLY HAS FIVE LIKES WHAT DO YOU THINK NOW :( :( :( - Andrizzle Gizzle

LMFAO! I know you did not just unlike my post...LOL! I'll have to remember that technique in the future. Too funny. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

With the current state of the economy, I believe you forgot the new policy: you have to pay $1 for every like or comment. :) - imabonehead

Well, that just proves this site is a rip-off. I'm going back to MySpace - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I hope you felt punished, I have since forgiven you. - Andrizzle Gizzle

i would say something, but was told too never argue with the coach - chaz2b

You cannot smite me. You may be the God of FF, but I am Rah, God of the Sun. I am unsmiteable, my friend. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

*shines his light upon Andrea G* - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

@chaz2b You're darned skippy! Now drop and give me 20! - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

It this another cry for attention? Those seem to be going around this evening. ;-) - Jason Huebel

Absolutely not. Just trying to see whose feed I have to suck to get a few comments and likes around here. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

oh man, if I were not a married lady... - Andrizzle Gizzle

When I see your tweets, I don't comment because a lot of times I don't you are here or on twitter. - Joe

I am omnipotent. Did I not say my name was Rah? - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

You show 'em Rah! - s t e v e

(but seriously, I am pretty much everywhere at once) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Compare your feed to mine, then come back and tell me what crowd you think you're in. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

I don't think I'm in any crowd. I just think there are a select few people who like my junk. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Don't leave, Rah! :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Oh, hey now, omnipotent sun God. I don't comment more, because I'm not at all sure that FriendFeed is ready for (some of) my opinions. I mostly lurk on FF, but I'd miss you if you weren't here. - Yvette Ferry

So you're saying I'm part of the inner circle of FF, Rahsheen?? I get pretty good responses, but I'm nowhere near the most popular person here. I think they key is *pictures*. You haven't posted any in a long time. - Kamilah Gill

Pictures, Kamilah? How long do you think it would take us to learn to draw like you? - Bruce Lewis

Oh, just for the record, I was totally kidding here because, once again, I was seeing a bunch of "Woe is me, nobody is liking my junk" threads and I just don't understand why people complain about this type of thing on FF, but it seems they just shut up and deal with it everywhere else. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I think it's probably because it's more noticeable on FF. On Twitter, no one else sees how many @ mentions other people get. However, on FF, you see everyone's comments to every person you're following (on top of that, you see the entire thread when someone you're following comments on someone else's post). It makes it more obvious that you're not as popular as other people. Some of us... more... - Curtiss Grymala

And those who whine about it become even less popular. I love those who put up content that is interesting, engaging, entertaining... If the only reason folk are on twitter, FF or other social media is straight-up, self-centred marketing. they bore me and get deleted. I'm good with a balance, but all marketing and score keeping without sincere content leaves me cold. - Fossil Huntress

not going to comment and fall into that trap. - Christian Anderson

d'oh! - Christian Anderson

Rethink this! - Andru Edwards

Hmmm. Wolf. We can't see the "bunch of threads" you see. FYI. - Yvette Ferry

You get into the "in" crowd by being here a lot, posting interesting stuff and being an active part of the conversation. But you already knew that, lol - LANjackal

How come Coach of FF quit in this way? ;) - ashish

I was just kidding. I'd never quit for such a silly reason :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Monica

Glenn Beck event divides Seattle - http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigb...

September 26 from The Big Blog - Comment - Like - Share

The region was already pretty polarized before Beck arrived. Interesting place. Doesnt seem to be much middle ground. - Christian Anderson from iPhone

Robert Scoble

christianderson: The Twitter Times creates a custom "newspaper" for you based on the posts of your Twitter friends http://bit.ly/S2uxa - http://twitter.com/christi...

September 17 from Twitter / Favorites from... - Comment - Like - Share

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interesting. you have a FF feed of twitter favorites? great idea. - Christian Anderson

Christian Anderson

FanSnap Blog & Blog Archive & NFL FanDemand Rankings - Week 2 - http://www.fansnap.com/blog...

September 17 from StumbleUpon - Comment - Like - Share

The defending Super Bowl champion Steelers fell out of the #1 slot in the FanSnap FanDemand rankings this week as they travel to Chicago to take on the Bears. The Bears now sit atop the FanDemand rankings. Steelers and Bears fans will be vying for the hottest ticket in the NFL -- seats at Soldier Field on Sunday. (see the complete rankings below) - Christian Anderson

Christian Anderson

"Facebook is the private party. Twitter is the public square. This line has been drawn and there’s no..." - http://www.mediadeluge.com/post...

September 15 from MEDIA deluge - Social Media,... - Comment - Like - Share

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Facebook is the 'private' party where the host records everything that happens. - LogEx

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...and says he owns everything -- including whatever you brought to the party - Christian Anderson

...and won't show most of it to you later. - LogEx

Facebook is a party where everyone is doing those ice breaker games at the beginning but the party never moves past that. - Rochelle

Steve Rubel

This is the funniest photo I have ever seen! (Updated: let's caption it!) - http://venturebeat.com/2009...

August 28 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Haha! Yeah. That's pretty funny. - Harold Paxton

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Maybe he will listen to Scoble! - Steve Rubel

I think I should be worried. My 3 yo just asked me, "Mama, why is that (edit!) man pointing at Barack Obama?" How does my 3yo recognize Obama from behind? o.O - Admiral Anika

I call Scoble by the nickname "that" all the time - Steve Rubel

LOL I fixed it. This heat is making me drop words all the time. - Admiral Anika

People recognize Michael Jordan's silhouette too - remember the cologne logo? - Daniel J. Pritchett

"How does my 3yo recognize Obama from behind?" - I remember reading about a study that found that you are actuallly more likely to recognize someone from behind. - John Craft

Dude....look at those ears. It's like a fingerprint. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

LOL @Rahsheen. I guess so. I just didn't think my kid has had the opportunity to see the POTUS from behind, like ever. - Admiral Anika

Actually, I can't recall having the opportunity either, but it looks like him to me :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

That's funny! - Robert Scoble

"That's the way, I like it" :) - Burçak Çubukçu

Guess what, daddy? It's Bawack Obama's birthday! - Adrian

Caption contest: "President Barack Obama ponders new Supreme Court nominee." - Steve Rubel

Caption contest: "President Obama was being briefed by the FBI today on the most wanted men in America .." - Matt Martin

Yes President Obama, my name is Robert Scoble, I currently work for Rack.. SQUIRREL!! - Matt Martin

Caption: "Are YOU following me on FriendFeed?!" - Jason Miller

Haha! Thats a good photo. - Nicholas James

Caption: "Unfollowed, O. Here's why: ___________" - Adrian

LOL Adrian....You win! - Bill Heslin

*dead* @Adrian. - Admiral Anika

Barack: Wow, look at the way that guy points. He should be president, not me. Who is he? No, never heard of him. I know an Alex Scoble. Are they related? - Slippy "WildBeard" Lane

Adrian wins. disable comments. - chrisofspades

Disable comments! :) - directeur

Haaa haha haaa. :) - Micah Wittman

"Oh no! He's in my Twitter, and he's here too?" - John E. Bredehoft

Social Obama looking at a Social Robert Scoble's picture? This one is great! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

++Adrian Malone "Caption: "Unfollowed. O. Here's Why;______" - Robert Higgins

Security Briefing: Anything goes bad during your Presidency, well... just "Blame Scoble" -that guy on the screen. Oh yeah, he's a huge geek that tweets so much the Twitter servers crash often, thus the famed "fail whale" image shows up. :) hehe! - Susan Beebe from iPhone

The Internet Wants YOU. - says Uncle Robert. - Call me Bronco

Does this mean Twitter would be down or no? :) - Christian Anderson from iPhone

Robert Scoble

I just loaded SimplyTweet too. Very nice and more features than Tweetie. Will try others for a while too and give a report @mikeerickson

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For iPhone or desktop? - Christian Anderson from iPhone

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@Christian - It's an iPhone app. No desktop version that I know of. - Grey Drane

twitterfon still does it for me .. keep going back to it ,, paid for Birdfeed , meh - johnpiercy

Twitterrific has even more features. I especially like the "compress text" and "shorten url´s" auto functions. Very useful. The visual style is very good. The usability, especially that i begin with the latest tweets and "go forward in time" not the other way around. The search ist great. And there is a LITE version, which is for free. I would really suggest you try it for a while. (Winner of the apple design award) But without landscape keyboard, that is the only thing i really miss. - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

So is simplytweet good then? - Edgar Rodríguez from iPhone

I like SimplyTweet a lot. - Robert Scoble

twitterific best for me so far. I tap for coversation and double tap for a profile - Walter Logeman

Walter - Yeah, I'd like to see SimplyTweet implement some of Twitterrific's UI ideas, too, like double/triple-tapping and tapping links directly in the main feed view (without having to view the individual tweet full screen). I think Twitterrific has the slickest interface, but is still missing some important features, and I suspect it might cause battery drain/heating on my phone (happened a few times after I started using the app and hasn't happened again since I stopped). - Grey Drane

Yet another Twitter iPhone client... oh ok! I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip. - Diego Barros 

I haven't tried SimplyTweet. DL'ing it now. - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

@simplygrey what do you miss in twitterrific? just curious - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

Well, a landscape keyboard and landscape mode in the in-app browser first off. Push notifications, too. Viewing follower lists. I guess these are the main ones, but there are other little things, too, like hashtag inserting and Posterous support (which could be a biggie, but I'm still just playing around with Posterous).... (Note: these are all things SimplyTweet does that Twitterrific doesn't AFAIK.) - Grey Drane from IM

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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 )) - massagin

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 is...

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 van Schip

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 Claus

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. - Kathy

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 The Raven

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! - aTechDude

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. - aTechDude

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. - aTechDude

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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This is absolutely wrong. My FriendFeed items are showing up in Google. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

...my FriendFeed items show up as well - J.D. Deutschendorf

Tom is wrong again. - Louis Gray

Left this comment. It's waiting for approval: "Sorry, but nope nope nope to the first half of your story about tweets not being able to rank in Google. Here's a perfect example that I ran into just in the last couple hours. Tonight my wife and I attended a Kathy Griffin concert at the Mountain Winery. Steve Wozniak was in the audience. On the way out of the concert, my wife did the... more... - Matt Cutts

So wrong .... - Charlie Anzman

By Google "juice" I'm not talking about being searchable, I'm referring to pagerank, the importance that Google assigns to content. There is a big difference here. There would need to be a system that collects and collates all your online personas along with your website/blogsite. - Tom Foremski

The real-time web is no so important. Not yet anyways. And it's not reliable, it's basically a huge mess. mostly a waste of time and noise. Once Google Wave starts working it will be another story. - Charbax

another sign up for the realtime isn't real deadpool list - Steve Gillmor

There's an opportunity for someone to complete the circle on real-time and static web and of course, Google is best positioned for that. And that's why "real-time" isn't what's going to crack GOOG's dominance. - Tom Foremski

realtime isn't gonna crack anybody'd dominance - it is extending it - Steve Gillmor

Google juice is fine and can be attributed - real-time does something far more powerful - flocking and virility. Google search is for residual traffic, Real-time is for live conversation. - Chris Saad

Real-time is just a feature though, there are other profound features that will coalesce into a new phase of the web - Chris Saad

oh wait Saad is clueless too - Steve Gillmor

Heh sure :) - Chris Saad

a feature, then your app is an implementation of a feature - don't think so - Steve Gillmor

It's a feature - an important one, but a feature none-the-less - There are some other important features that need to come together as well for a real sea-change - Chris Saad

sea changes are overrated - Steve Gillmor

realtime v. sea change - take rt and the $ - Steve Gillmor

I disagree - IRC was 'real-time' - the point is not just real-time - it's also about concrete identity, distribution, aggregation, implicit and explicit gestures and more - Chris Saad

don't throw gestures at me pal - Steve Gillmor

I think we are just debating naming conventions though - whatever you want to call this thing its exciting as hell - Chris Saad

agreed I call it realtime - Steve Gillmor

I call it something else :) But it's still fun! - Chris Saad

concrete gestures blah blah blah - realtime wins - Steve Gillmor

How bout PushButton :-) - PXLated

rssCloud - Steve Gillmor

Don't give up on your genius from the old days Steve - you were right - just ahead of your time - like all of us - Gestures still need to play a role - Chris Saad

I was right then and right now - Steve Gillmor

You're always right - aren't you? - Chris Saad

you're still about to be right - Steve Gillmor

haha what does that mean - Chris Saad

don't worry it'll come to you - Steve Gillmor

It seems discussions about these types of things end up too binary - either/or. It's neither either/or but "and". - Tom Foremski

Tom, you started it with "The problem" - Steve Gillmor

Seriously though - have you had a moment to read our synaptic web straw man steve? - Chris Saad

seriously, what the leo are you talking about - Steve Gillmor

what the Leo LOL - Chris Saad

http://synapticweb.org/ <-- this thing is what I am talking about. I'd very much like your input (as always) - Chris Saad

I still say realtime is the wrong emphasis. It's about flow, and persistence. - Kevin Marks

Yes Kevin - that's part of my point - would love ur input on that link too - Chris Saad

Yes, I did :) But I wasn't clear enough on the "problem." I'm thinking in terms of investment of time between blog and the real-time world and how much time should I spend here and there... - Tom Foremski

More content on my blog gives me an investment that translates into a better pagerank which is a lasting benefit. But it's not clear how lasting are the rewards if I spend more time in the real-time world... - Tom Foremski

Why is it either/or Tom - why not integrate real-time on your blog? - Chris Saad

*bump* - Jay Cuthrell

tom's post points out the obvious. "You've got to do both. If you abandon your static web presence for your real-time activities you will find it harder to build your overall social media capital". of course a single micro-message is not *typically* going to have any weight as it's often just a pointer to the real content value. the largest percentage of the so-called real-time... more... - sull

i also think real-time is a feature of the larger evolving digital infosphere. in a way, realtime is like rapid failure.... meaning... the speed and volume of the data flow to analyze and grade and filter and stock... the greater the value realtime offers to intelligent systems (ie. google). slower data flow translates to a slower realization of what content is not only generally good... more... - sull

The other day, @bitlynow gave me a link about someone who died. my first thought was... hey it's bitly, they are good at what they are doing so i gave the tweet artificial value by reposting it only to realize moments later that the link and story were part of a hoax and possibly part of a worm. perfect example of why faster realtime data flow and analysis are critical to avoiding bad data from propagating. - sull

sull - well said... Some people however, aren't using pointers, they have nothing to point to, and that's a mistake. - Tom Foremski

Who says Real Time doesn't get you Google Juice. Not the Murphy Goode winery: http://www.google.com/search... (yesterday's post already there) or, more accurately, http://www.google.com/search... . - Robert Scoble

Thats more like, its the problem with today's Google. - Lakshman Prasad

Robert Scoble

Yo @karaswisher says Twitter will turn on new home page next week. Will they fix search? Will they fix DM's? Will they fix blocking?

July 23 - Comment - Like - Share

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I think they better fix their APIs - polou/indigo_bow

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I would like them to aggregate the top tweets ( content ) not just the keywords - Sumanth Kolar

I'd be happy with 1 of the 3 (in terms of the fixes) - Technihub - Mike Riley

Maybe realtime like ff? And not censor the trends? And not suck in general? - Tomy Thomson from iPod

I'd be happy if they simply added the ability to retweet. Something that has become such a big part of the site is still missing - El Freak

Does anyone go to the home page. Hope they fix that stuff regardless of the new home page. - Christian Anderson from iPhone

Blocking and Search are most important, do we really care about DMs? - Veetrag

Veetrag: yes. People DM me a LOT. And that's not counting all the spam and auto DMs I get. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

@Tomy since most of the client's provide realtime feature, twitter does not need to put that kind of load on their servers. And as far as I think, people who use web directly are not heavy twitter users. - Veetrag

@Scoble @Holden Ok, I get it now. Just a quick question, what is wrong with current DMs system. I see only problem is count and sometime delay. - Veetrag

Veetrag: how many ways would you like me to list? 1. I can't reorder them. I have 4,000 DMs. Try to get to #3,500. You can't. 2. I can't CC anyone on them. 3. You can't send more than 140 characters. 4. You can't "chat" with someone, like you can on FriendFeed. 5. You can't forward them to someone else. 6. You can't share them among multiple people (very important for businesses). - Robert Scoble

I just hope they fix the bug on my account when I see the new homepage...it's getting annoying now and if they fix any other features it will be a nice suprise :) - Nicholas James

@Holden @Scoble yes, seems like a problem for people with many followers. I get DMs in my gmail and try to organize it there, that is the only work around I could get. - Veetrag

I bet TechCrunch knows :-) - Jesse Stay

@scoble yes, but these are more of add-ons. Twitter needs to fix spammer problem first. - Veetrag

@Jesse LOL! :-) - Veetrag

Holden: sorry, you're wrong. Twitter is now a business platform and is moving there more and more. Celebrities and businesses NEED those features. If you're just chatting with your mom, that's one thing, but if you are getting business messaging, you need a whole nother kind of feature set. - Robert Scoble

Do you also think that 'replies' option should be brought back, where we can select what kind of messages are shown on our timeline? - Veetrag

I think they should fix the favourites option whilst they are at it to make it more like a "likes" system which can/auto-retweet if you select that option for instance if you select it in the settings. - Nicholas James

They may be fixing the spamming issues. im short about 50 followers i think all bots. i hope they were all bots. - Giancarlo Caparo

Twitter is as much of a business tool as Second Life was... meaning it isn't. I seriously doubt that it ever will be. I'm still hearing it in the buzzword context. It's a curiosity to most people I know. I can see it used for gauging public reaction to your products and services, but it's just such a poor communication tool compared to FriendFeed. A nice idea that caught on and now needs to die for better tech, like the "tagging" craze a few years ago. - Ryan Massie

Ryan: I disagree and have some personal accounts. Rackspace is doing some pretty sizeable business because of Twitter. The thing I do agree with you on is that it sucks for doing business for a variety of reasons (some of which I've covered here). - Robert Scoble

Rackspace probably would have done well regardless of the medium. They're a great company doing innovative things. I'm not sure that the same wouldn't have happened if twitter didn't exist and a more elegant solution to blog search, blog comments, and trackbacks had gained as much popularity. I think good companies can market and be successful in surprising ways. I doubt that a corner store could have the same success on twitter. - Ryan Massie

Meebo was successful because the kids could get on to their favorite IM platform from inside school firewalls. =) - Ryan Massie

I still think that the value of these microblogging services are in the firehose data and in search. If you can get people to have richer conversations over your service, then your firehose data will have more value. - Ryan Massie

Not holding my breath..re:"Scoble: @karaswisher says Twitter will turn on new home page next week. Will they fix search? DM's? Blocking?" - Alex Schleber

Jorge Escobar

Whoa! Look at my follower graph!

July 23 - Comment - Like - Share

Was it something I said? LOL - Jorge Escobar

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damn you fell off homie - Cee Bee

Trimming spammers. - Louis Gray

They just perged spammers from follower counts - Christian Anderson from iPhone

that's wild 'cause my count went up since this morning (and i haven't received any notifications at all). actually that's not true. it went down by a few. - Cee Bee

Twitter's official comments: http://status.twitter.com/post... - Jorge Escobar

Morton Fox

Lowered all the blinds easily using chopsticks. Why didn't I think of that earlier? So much fun that I lowered the blinds in other rooms too

July 23 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

James (!?), chaz2b and edythe liked this

What inspired that? - Lindsay

But can you catch a fly with them? :) - Christian Anderson from iPhone

I was looking for something suitable to poke at the release mechanism for the blinds and the chopsticks were tapered perfectly for that. - Morton Fox

Christian Anderson

Iran's Disputed Election http://www.boston.com/bigpict... Following up from last Friday's entry about Iran's Presidential Election, Tehran and other cities have seen the largest street protests and rioting since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Supporters of reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, upset at their...

June 15 - Comment - Like - Share

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http://inapcache.boston.com/univers... - Christian Anderson

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Photojournalism done right. - Robert Scoble

Agree. Best I've seen in a while. Thank you MSM. You're still important! - Christian Anderson

Amazing, evocative and powerful stuff. Thanks for sharing. - K Srikrishna

Peter Kafka

confused. are we saying twitter "covered" the iran riots? or twitter covered people complaining about CNN's coverage?

June 14 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

"Twitter covered" is inaccurate right from the get go. Twitter is a medium. It doesn't cover anything. And, yes, there was a fair bit of well founded griping about the lack of msm coverage. - Christian Anderson

Christian Anderson

"P.S 2: This website is banned in Iran by goverment since 3 hours ago." http://tehranlive.org/ - amazing photos (via @asteele)

June 14 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@scobleizer did you see this site? Http://tehranlive.org - Christian Anderson

Kevin Rose

just downloaded safari 4 final, very pleased they moved the tabs back down to the bottom

June 9 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Jason Clarke, Luis, Penguin It's Cold Outside and 7 other people liked this

I'm afraid to. Because of Glims, Safari 4 Beta would crash until they finally updated it. I haven't seen anything yet that indicates the latest version of Glims works with the latest version of Safari. - Fleagle

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It works well, except I cannot customized toolbar to stay put when I close the browser... I think it is a bug. - Tyson Williams

@Fleagle The latest version of Glims should work with Safari 4 - I updated it and it's been working OK for me. - Chu Yeow

Another vote for Glims on Safari 4. The latest build, I believe 17, works great. - David Chartier

Funny, I hated the tabs on top at first but now I kind of miss it. Now I feel the browser looks to bulky on top. - ChiliMac

no! i like the tabs at the top - Christian Anderson

Safari 4 occasionally hangs when launching to my iGoogle homepage; haven't figured out whose fault it is. - Robert Hafer

They should have left the tabs where they were, but made them suck less. They ought to just build Safari 5 from Chrome. - Christopher A Carr

@Josh: "...first true Mac experience?" ... and now your perspective is more "fresh?" - Christopher A Carr

Robert Scoble

Getting ready for building43's launch on Thursday. We're doing a joint event with TechCrunch (it's their fourth birthday too). There will be a virtual component, too, and lots of Facebook stuff.

June 7 from Facebook - Comment - Like - Share

Ho John Lee, Daniel Rowley, Nicholas James and 23 other people liked this

Glad to see this release finally. A lot of us have been waiting for a while. - Abhimanyu Chirimar

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How,yeah, true. There's stil that Facebook thing going on. - Zackatoustra

Good luck, Scobleizer. - imabonehead

When's the party? - Christian Anderson

Thanks, it's just a start. Brainstorming, getting a team together, figuring out what Building43 will be, and getting the engine to start turning over has proven pretty difficult. Hopefully we can meet the expectations. - Robert Scoble

Robert: I will be covering the launch on the blog too. - Jim Connolly

Christian: unfortunately it's an invite-only affair because the place we're hosting it at can only hold 200 people. But we'll be doing live video and there'll be some fun friendfeed integration (thank you to Paul Buchheit and the friendfeed team for help, even over the weekend!) It all happens Thursday afternoon, more details to come soon. - Robert Scoble

Looking forward to it, Good Luck with the launch Robert! - Gary Gannon

Looking forward to seeing it all, hope it all goes smoothly :) - Sam Webb

Can't wait Robert - wish I could be there. - Jesse Stay

Sam: it's a launch. They never seem to go smoothly. Sort of like taking off from an aircraft carrier. - Robert Scoble

Best of luck to you and the team Robert. - Johnny Worthington

Looking toward to some great stuff - Bob Morris (polizeros)

Robert Scoble

One reason why I love Fred Wilson: he participates. Proof:

June 3 - Comment - Like - Share

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http://www.avc.com/a_vc... look at his comments. - Robert Scoble

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THAT is how you build a brand online. There are LOTS of rich guy VCs out there (I have hundreds of their cards). How many can you name? I can name only a handful and Fred is one of them. - Robert Scoble

He's a wonderful role model for all the businesses and people getting into the online world. There isn't a shortcut to this. If you want to be known, if you want followers, if you want engagement, you MUST participate. I guess there are other ways (already be a celebrity like Oprah) but they don't lead you to a good outcome. What is a good outcome? To have a better life. To me participation is key. - Robert Scoble

Congrats to Fred for shunning the conference circuit and investing that time in all of us. I appreciate it and am a loyal reader because of it. - Robert Scoble

but he' ant the only VC that participants.. there are others too .. !! - Peter Dawson

Fred was an early Twitter 'celebrity' for exactly this reason. He engages. This is why he'll continue to have a strong online brand. I think we'll start to see a backlash against people who don't engage. Fred as nothing to worry about when /if that happens. - Christian Anderson

Peter: there are others, but Fred stands out for some reason because of how he participates. - Robert Scoble

His blogs are very informative - in fact, I was just reading the latest "Is Twitter A Substitute For Set Top Box Data?" http://www.avc.com/. Excellent. Ditto to your findings regarding Fred. - courtney benson

yeah, but i don't participate enough in FF. i wish it were easier to do that from my blog comments. - Fred Wilson

Hmmm sounds like something that would be easier with...Google Wave! - Californian

Fred: seems to me you invested in a company called Disqus that should make it easier to do just that, no? ;-) - Robert Scoble

@robert - i agree. right now it just pumps my comments here which is not the right model - Fred Wilson

One thing I like is that he keeps it classy. But, participating in comments is strategic too-- drives page views, encourages community. - Patricia

I am starting to think I need to talk to Fred and the Disqus team :) - Rob Diana

Dave Winer

I didn't know there's a page on twitter.com where you can see all the suggested users. Useful! http://twitter.com/login

June 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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How is that useful? Are their suggestions in any way germane, or are you just trying to figure out who's gotten that special boost? - Joel Bennett

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Looks like its mainly a list of "Celebrity" twitterers. - Mark Schill

This is the current group of Suggested Users. New names are added every week. It's less celebrity-focused than it was in April. - Liz

or, you can just look at the most followed on twitterholic. same list - Christian Anderson

Wasnt there an argument over this page a while back? - J. Abdul-Qahhar

http://www.scripting.com/stories... - Dave Winer

So to be considered a 'suggested user' you must be in the so-called top echelon? This is just a carryover from values classification...A big ship just sank there are 5 people on board and only 4 life jackets. Who gets them? - Sheryl

What a tedious list of wankers. I follow almost nobody on that list. Am I missing out? - John Speck

akshay krishnaiah

What Not To Wear: Microsoft Press Conference Edition - http://www.businessinsider.com/what-no...

June 1 from Silicon Alley Insider - Comment - Like - Share

i think microsoft sells those shirts - Christian Anderson

yep. it's microsoft "soft wear" http://www.microsoft.com/windows... - Christian Anderson

Christian Anderson

Is it possible to filter out the tweets with #hashtags I don't want to see? #spymaster

May 29 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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This is a clear area where friendfeed shines. - Christian Anderson

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in twitter, the stream can get flooded with a tweets on a topic you don't care about - Christian Anderson

on friendfeed, those posts are typically threaded into a conversation that you can easily hide if you don't want to see it - Christian Anderson

Of course a twitter app like Tweetie, tweetdeck, could easily address by letting you filter by hashtag - Christian Anderson

But you can't specifically filter out a specific Twitter hashtag from Friendfeed. - Vlad Bobleanta

true, but most ff users filter out anything from twitter anyway so it's not really an issue - Christian Anderson

Btw, Statuzer does this. http://blog.textoo.net/en... -the best twitter client imho. - Vlad Bobleanta

Thanks, Vlad. I'll check it out - Christian Anderson

Please do, and keep in mind it's a work in progress, as all these clients are. If you need help, just @ me here or on Twitter or @Statuzer over there. - Vlad Bobleanta

Oh, and I'm in no way affiliated to it/it's creator. I just like it very much :) - Vlad Bobleanta

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