This was helpful as I ponder switching from Twitter to FF in light of chronic downtimes. Is there any convenient way to bring those I follow on Twitter (and vice versa, hopefully) here to FF? - Len Edgerly

There is the Twitter 2 Friend Feed Importer for Windows @ http://internetducttape.com/20... - Mark Warren

Len, the best I found was this windows app; far from being perfect, but the best I have found: http://internetducttape.com/20... - Daniel Robitaille

In last couple of weeks I have been oscillating between only using Twitter, or only using FF. But now I'm thinking I'm going into the FF camp full time. But only after creating imaginary friends for all the twitter people I follow who are sadly not on FF. - Daniel Robitaille

Does anyone know of a way to auto publish ff notes to twitter for mac? It seems like this is the last thing FF needs to keep me over here full time. - Andrew Baron

Spot on. Thanks for the ffapps mention ;) - Aviv

Nice. I'm the Johnny Appleseed of FriendFeed. ;) - Jason Shellen

Prediction: in one year from now the majority of FriendFeeders will be getting their FF fix (AKA consuming their FriendFeed flow) using alternative interfaces built upon the raw-by-design FF platform. - Aviv

From the article: "Friendfeed essentially renders Twitter obsolete. Steve Gillmor is wrong. The only need for Twitter is for legacy purposes. The same audience that made Twitter is slowly migrating over to Friendfeed because Friendfeed has what Twitter has, but its better and there is a lot more." - Mike Reynolds

One of the better articles I've seen written on FF lately. - Thomas Hawk

"The only need for Twitter is for legacy purposes." extremely well argued - Duncan Riley via twhirl

Thanks for the great comments yall, makes me wish I had more time to write more! - Andrew Baron

Great argument. I linked this on my twitter. - Sarah Austin

very well done andrew & agree would be nice to have the auto publish to twitter while on mac, when on windows its useful - i can't see abandoning twitter just yet but the usability of friendfeed it much richer rivaled by the diversity of input methods (when working) and the simplicity of twitter - be really nice to have both working well frankly :) - mike "glemak" dunn

I think you're wrong Andrew. Twitter itself is hard for people to grok, but they get there eventually. FriendFeed is an order of magnitude harder to understand. This technologically superior service will not compete with twitter once Twitter gets it's act together. It's VHS versus Betamax all over again. - AJCann

AjCann, I can understand your feeling about this and it may be that you only have a desire to use Twitter to broadcast tweets in a one way fashion or only go one level deep with people. Thats fine. I think a small subset of people will continue to want that. But the reason why FF is picking up steam as a Twitter replacement is not because we all don't like Twitter, or just want to have fun. Its happening because its a natural evolution. - Andrew Baron

What I don't get about FriendFeed is… it seems to mostly aggregate stuff from other sites, right? And right now, Twitter is the one most people are using for their "microblogging." But it doesn't show all your tweets. If you tweet a lot, it shows a small fraction of your tweets. How do my messages get out? - Jesse Baer

Sorry, I don't agree with that either Andrew. FF is basically an aggregator, although the recent addition of commenting complicates the picture. The reason FF has had the big boost lately is due to the chronic instability of Twitter rather than the inherent qualities of FF. I'm not knocking FF - it's good, stable and improving. But it's not a replacement for Twitter, it's a different beast. - AJCann

Can someone help me - how do I link to this thread on FriendFeed? Thanks. - AJCann

yes, use the "More" feature. Select "link to this entry" and then copy the URL from your address bar. - Robert Scoble

Thanks Robert. - AJCann

Another n00bie here. I loved the article and am trying to get my friendfeed onto my blog to join the revolution. How do I embed the friendfeed widget into my wordpress template. Do I need a javascript plug-in? - ViralReality

Many of the bloggers I read have yet to sign-on to Friendfeed and I agree with Gillmor that Twitter is driving this bus. - paul mooney

Paul, if they have yet to sign-on, then they are simply late to transfer to the next bus. Its okay, there will be another bus behind this one. - Andrew Baron

Why does it have to be a "chap"? Why not a "gal" or a "lady" or some other reference to the under-represented majority? - Out Wrong

I tried to use this and it said the setup files are corrupted. Downloaded it again -- same thing. - Trish Robinson

I really like what FF is doing, but what many people forget is the advantage of SMS texting to and mass mailing from Twitter. Twitter as some form of IM client seems silly in my eyes. I see it more as an SMS2.0 rather than IM2.0. FF is completely different from Twitter. - Jake Fudge

FF seems aimed more towards some form of Blogging2.0 (yes, I'll stop using '2.0' from this point - I promise!). What FF needs to work on now is making it's commenting system integrate with the blogs that they link to. So then all my Flickr, YouTube, Twitter comments matter on the grand scheme of things - and reduces redundancy. Also better levering of the 'liking' system that can possibly relate to the blog's Page Rank? - Jake Fudge

Twitter is only for legacy purposes? Call me crazy, but I can think of two or three features Twitter has that FriendFeed still lacks. That's why people aren't coming over here in droves. I'm not going to fool myself into thinking that FriendFeed is overtaking Twitter when it's the same people saying it over and over. Twitter is alive and well, problems or not. - Shawn Farner

Len: Take the plunge! I've made the switch & I'm loving FF! - Thomas Ho via fftogo

i think it's actually this interface that people tend to disconsider that is a big part of FF success. i'm not seeing it go away. and i wouldn't want to see it go away. - Tudor