These people aren't paying for this, and it's not going to do a thing to twitter. I bet they don't even notice. - Terry O'Fee
They'll just give us our money back. :) - Morton Fox
"Your search - "baaaahhhssssttttaaarrrrdddsss" - did not match any documents." Good luck on the Google juice there, Robert. :-) - Louis Gray
F'ing baaaahhhssssttttaaarrrrdddsss always trying to mess up the search engines. Get a life! :-) - Robert Scoble
By the way, searching on baaaahhhssssttttaaarrrrdddsss on FriendFeed finds this comment cluster. - Robert Scoble
good thing we're not trying get Twitter to listen. Join in the discussion to see what we're up to. - Bwana McCall
I'm also the first person to call this a "comment cluster". I want credit and a plaque, darn it! ;-) - Robert Scoble
If I were Twitter, I'd roll out every update I could right now, less people there to realize anything is wrong. - Shawn Kirsch
@Shawn: what percentage of Twits do you honestly believe are participating in the Twat-out ? 99%, 80%, 55.9%, 30%, 12%, <5%, 0.01%. Come on, have a guess. - Andy C
That would be great, actually. Do all the improvements now and Twitter will be better when we return. - Morton Fox
Personally, I don't have anything better to do, so I'm not doing anything... with twitter for the day. :) - Grant Bierman
The people that Tweet more in defiance does that make them Twitout-Outers? - Joe Dawson
In the end, it could be that absence makes the heart grow fonder. Then again, the same could be said when Twitter has downtime... - Ontario Emperor
twitter has reply and DM - two things FF needs? or can they just both be good at what they do? - ben rogers via twhirl
There are advantages to implementing threaded conversations or DMs, in theory. I bet threaded conversations are a lot messier on the eyes than this implementation is, but it'd be worth seeing. DMs are fine as well, unless full profiles with contact information are made available. - Louis Gray
I think FF as it is right now (wihtout @ or DM) allows a much smoothier approach to conversation than twitter! - julian_marain via twhirl
LEt them each be what they are, the synergy is great. FF is a goog backchannel to other content. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
What I find extremely ironic is by everyone posting and tweeting about Twit-Out,they only bring more awareness to cause.
Who's the loser now? - Shey
Do a Summize search, or a Google search, or Friendfeed search on Twit-Out. It doesn't matter how many people actually participate, look at the reach. - Shey
Apropos the post itself, not Twit-Out: it's pretty sad that this was my first exposure to Geoff's blog and it'll probably also be my last. I don't have any need or desire to read a blog whose owner thinks this post was a good idea as written. - Chris Anthony
I think exactly like Chris, first and last time on that blog. - Gadiel Rivera
I definitely do not want to see DM added to FriendFeed. You know what we call a 'DM' in these parts? E-mail. - Akiva Moskovitz
Just hoping to stir the pot. Experiment complete and successful. - Geoff
In my case, I'm collecting a lot of data on the deficiencies of using FriendFeed as a mobile microblogging platform. - Ontario Emperor
I think that they are trying to get a life . . . without Twitter ;) - Lyndon Washington
@Geoff While turning a lot of people off from reading any more of your posts. Nice. - Shey
Geoff, this wasn't stirring the pot so much as giving the pot the finger while casting smug looks over your shoulder at the other cooks. - Chris Anthony
@ChrisA Come on, this is just fun dialog, right? btw, I like the Lost in Translation image on your blog. - Geoff
@Andy C. Honestly, a very small fraction of Twitter users are participating. However, they are mostly power users, the ones that keep everybody's stream rolling. I'm not boycotting, and as I watch my stream, it's around 25% of what it usually is. - Shawn Kirsch
@Geoff, thanks! I guess so; I just put up with enough of the "LOSER" crap in high school to last me several lifetimes, you know? I thought we were past that. - Chris Anthony
@ChrisA yes, unfortunately I do know about being called a "loser". The "loser" image did its job of getting people fired up. I'll tone it down and get back to real blogging about MessageDance. - Geoff
