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Expose you, for better or worse, to people you're not following directly.
Support links, photos, video.
Aggregate lifestreams but allow you to filter out services (a la BrightKite, though I like BrightKite).
Identify "hot" topics and filter for them.
And yeah, not go down. Yet. - Ryan via fftogo
They shouldn't be compared. I need a bullhorn. - Bwana McCall
No "Gateway timeout HTTP 503 response" errors when third party apps communicate with their server. - Patrick Kearney
1. Importing feeds from other services. 2. Uptime. 3. Comments. 4. Imaginary Friends. - will killian
it's a lot easier to ignore people or conversations on FF. If I follow someone who makes 200 tweets a day, I have to wade through them on Twitter. On FF, I'm not subjected to that much stuff - Joseph Z.
FF works. Plus FF has threaded conversations. - wrecks
I think will killian pretty much has it. I also like the ability to see the content driving the most conversation, via the "Show best of" feature. Being able to pull feeds into rooms has a lot of potential as well. - Greg Schwartz
What I think neither of them do well is conversations. But FF definitely has the upperhand thus far - Rob Fuller
What would friendfeed be without Twitter? My concern for friend feed is that it can be self spamming, it seems cluttered in a way. Twitter is more light weight and desirable even on your mobile device. I will not deny that friend feed can do all that twitter can and some. I'm not yet confident calling it direct alternative, more like a good supplement to twitter for social network junkies such as ourselves. - Tatenda Mbavarira
FriendFeed lets me follow fewer people and get so much more in return. - blackmailismylife
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It's a one-stop shop for EVERYthing someone updates. The flickr mini-gallery is a joy to look at and seeing responses from a "friend of a friend" is as neat as senor Scoble said. Only downside (for me) is that it's SO much info that I can't check it as quickly and casually as I would/do Twitter. - Alex
I second - not go down constantly. Also allows for ease of conversation grouping. Although for mobile I prefer Twitter. - Aunesty Janssen
FF aggregates content from tons of services, and Twitter doesn't. But they're two completely different services, you're comparing apples to oranges. Can I update FF via SMS? Can I post my location? Get replies from FF users via SMS? Can I plug unique services like Overheard or IOU into FF? No. - David Chartier
FF is much better at aggregating content and it lends itself well to in depth conversation threads. Twitter is easier to use for engaging in multiple chats at one time but harder to follow a single conversation thread. - Karen Swim
(1) community structures on ff. elitist "twitter whore" blockers are avoided here. if you block you will miss dialog. There are no other issues. social networks are inherently "social", and denying gender structure has always been the great flaw of society. friendfeed takes the sorority out! goodbye eMom and Volvo Soccer Moms! - Noah David Simon
I don't get to read only one side of a conversation when it happens with one of my FF friends. - Rodrigo Jaroszewski
It compiles everything, not just 140 character status updates, has comment threading, and is a better community overall - Grant
note that @amandachapel is rarely on friendfeed. think about why she wouldn't like it here! and why would Robert Scoble go on a private feed. Strumpette might be a man, but her personality is sorority like. Female structures get lost here. - Noah David Simon
I think of FF as Twitter plus bookmarking plus access to my friends' activities on networks I don't participate in (I don't use Seesmic or Jaiku, for example, but I like seeing when friends do). Plus commenting and likes are good. - Marshall Kirkpatrick
It has been said but needs repeating. Mutual symbiosis is the name of the game. They both fill a distinct need. - Mathew A. Koeneker
Marshall: agreed. It's a recommendation engine, too. You follow interesting people and their activities "recommend" interesting things that are worth you attention. - Steve Lynch via Alert Thingy
I don't like the FF threads. Time consuming. Becoming like IRC. Prefer Twitter. Simpler. - James Carroll
A lot of the comments best sums it up - It simply works. I also like the sense of community. I created a room, and I started topics. Those topics grew, and now people are starting their own topics in the room I created. The other good feature is that when one person comment everyone following them see your feed. Twitter could learn a lot from friendfeed. - Gerard Lagana
@noahdavidsimon interesting complexes has this lord Farquade (C) Shrek I - silpol
elitist personal attacks mean u didn't address my point silpol.1 liners work better on twitter, which is exactly my point. - Noah David Simon
twitter is to Ron Paul as friendfeed is to McCain. One liners to complex economic issues will not work here. friendfeed is closer to life. no more gold standard solutions. the guy in the back with a response will not be drowned out by the hippie mob. - Noah David Simon
this is sweet, the more I play w/it the better it gets! Sync so much to this (flickr, g reader, utube ect.) and I can even send this to twitter as a reply. It's sick, almost feel bad for twitter. - Gaspare
