Steve Rubel

Interesting analysis that also breaks down "the top 20 'heaviest' (most subscribed to) FF users." What's notable is that many of these same influencers put Twitter on the map. - Steve Rubel via Bookmarklet

Must read now. - Russellreno

Interesting table! - Louis Gray

I would like to see 21-50. - Russellreno

This data is lame. Notice # 20 - he barely even uses FriendFeed at ALL! He only has 2 organic posts. His entire FF is just a cross-post of his twitter and upcoming feeds - that’s it… ok ooooh 14 comments since last year - wow! let me go follow that guy! gees. I guess this list strikes a nerve, 'cuz I keep seeing lists of "cool" people - yet they are NOT the really *contributing* to FF; now granted MANY of them are, and you know who they are - i do! and I am GLAD they are here.. trim list! - Susan Beebe

I too am impressed that the folks who built the twitter empire are re-building their empire over in FF- which I applaud as FF is a worthy service and gives us more conversation!! My rant is due to folks listed as key players in FF that don't really even use the service - Susan Beebe

they are key players in the analysis Susan because of the number of people who subscribe/follow them. is it lame that ~20% subscribe to someone who doesn't participate much? I don't think so, at least not if people wish to see Arrington's blog/twitter/flickr etc feeds via FriendFeed. - Robert Seidman

Cool job... Love the stats! - Mitchell Tsai

Note the correlation between the top 10 and those who make up the "default recommendation" list for new users. Re: Allen Stern's post, it's how FF targets the influencers. - Sprague D

Susan and Robert. I agree with each of you. Arrington does not participate here, but FF is a great place to find all of these people in one place. - Russellreno

completely agree @Sprague D, you are right. The top list are all the people on the default list. I notice my recommended list never ever changes and I refuse to follow folks just because everyone else is. - Lou Paglia

What is "contribution"? How many people actively comment/like/post? I don't think I've ever seen a post with more than ~300 likes or ~200 comments. For a userbase of 75,000 people, that's much less than 1%. - Mitchell Tsai

Funny. This guy's stars show only 10,000 subscribe to me. FriendFeed says more than 15,000 do now. So, either FF has really grown a lot since he took his stats or he missed more than he thought. - Robert Scoble

Er, stats. Can you tell I am FF'ing from an iPhone? - Robert Scoble

Compared to how many on Twitter? People like to compare Twitter & FriendFeed, but they are very different beasts. Sure you could use FF as a microblogger, but what a waste, it's the aggregation and conversations that make it what it is. I too wonder why some of the folks in the top 20+ are so widely followed... it's not that they aren't interesting, I just think there are many others who are contributing more unique and insightful perspectives. - £ogical €xtremes

Somehow I can't convince the 30 or so people that follow me on Twitter to friend me here. :( sadness. - Zach Underwood

Maybe the data is a little stale Robert. Looking at his older blog posts it seems he started his experiment back in mid-june but only posted his analysis over the weekend. Although its not presented very clearly - Jon Dillon

Your information is interesting. I personally like FF better than Twitter - Theresa Geyer

Think Seidman's piece addresses this nicely http://www.youhavetobekiddingm... - Charlie Anzman

"This guy's stars show only 10,000 subscribe to me. FriendFeed says more than 15,000 do now." ok Robert, we belive what you say, you got 15K followers - so what ? - Peter Dawson

He says that he may be missing 10-15%, but based on Robert Scoble's data (and considering all the private feeds), maybe that should be 25-50%. Perhaps also a lot of people with private feeds subscribe to Robert (a "discriminating" crowd). - Mitchell Tsai

Peter: why the bile? We're talking about stats and I'm giving mine. Since I'm mentioned in the article above, I think it's relevant to the conversation. - Robert Scoble

Wow, I had no idea friendfeed was so big (not matter the exact figures). Still feels like a small town (in a good way). - Sutee Dee

@susanbeebe - just to clarify - in this context “active” simply means discoverable, and it doesn’t matter if a person actually does anything on FF as long as his feed keep flowing in. If he is active on twitter and doesn’t even set foot in FF, he will still be picked up by my crawler because his twitter activity contributes to his FF feed. Also not that no matter if he spends time on FF, the data I collected suggests that many people follow his FF feed, which is what I wanted to find out. - Yuval Atzmon

@Robert and others - The data was indeed collected during the second half of June. Please look at this FF thread http://tinyurl.com/6h7zc6, check smernit and jowyang numbers, and compare to a longer list I will publish tonight. I'd say they fit well within the 15-20% margin. Also, as far as the big guys go, I'm sure I'm missing more than that. There are probably a lot of dormant/inactive users who simplly follow Scoble and Arrington without contributing to the feed (which makes them non-discoverable). - Yuval Atzmon