“Added about 1,000 new FriendFeed subscriptions yesterday. If you were following me as of yesterday I'm now following you. Adding a thousand new FF contacts certainly does pick up the pace of the experience. I like it.”
May 17 at 10:01 am
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Your pics a great! Keep em coming! - Tim FitzGerald
Good luck keeping up. :) - lilbyrdie
Yeah, thanks for subbing me. I really enjoy your photos and I might never have seen them otherwise. - Akiva Moskovitz
thomas - how long did it take to add em all? did you have some script do it for you? - Tad - the Meme Maker
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That's some serious adding. I find that it's not terribly easy to reciprocate after the fact. What methods did you use? - Bwana McCall
TH - love your pics and your favs too - Dave Hussein Martin
Sweet, you are following ME now! Now who is the mouse and who is the cheese! - Phil Glockner
Wow - I use Friendfeed the opposite way. - Steve Rubel
why would you do that? Seems like way too much... I've been moving in the opposite direction - removing people I've been following so I can have far less noise - Jonathan Greene
I went from 10 to 100 a little over a week ago and it certainly made things significantly more interesting. FriendFeed is taking a lot of my attention away from Techmeme, and providing a much broader view of what's going on out there. - Larry Rubin
Tad, it took me a long time, maybe 3 or 4 hours. I don't have or know of a script to auto add reciprocity. I think Scoble had one for Twitter but I don't know of one for FF yet. Basically I went to who subscribed to me and then cmd-clicked them all into new tabs and one by one went through adding people. - Thomas Hawk
Jonathan and Steve, there is no need to remove anyone when you have the "hide" feature. If someone is too noisy you just need to hide whatever is causing the noise. I'm discovering lots of new interesting people this way. I love it. Even when someone twitters in a language I can't read for instance I can hide their twitters but still get their great flickr photos or flickr faves. selective hiding by service rocks. - Thomas Hawk
Want to add your Twitter follows to Friend Feed? Use Twitter 2 Friend Feed Importer. http://tinyurl.com/4rr2fl I am looking for a scrip that will check FF against my Twitter follows. - Russellreno
Welcome to myself!! Mmm, that didn't sound right. - Daniel Llacer
That is _A LOT_ of followers. I just hit 1,500 total, and it took me more than a day and a half! - Louis Gray
Sounds like a job for iMacros - Rah™
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please add me - www.FriendFeed.com/vmjr - thanks! - Victor Ryden
I"m still not sure how you can possibly keep up with the information blitz that comes from 1000+ contacts. I get Scoble's meme about 'noise' over 'news', but I don't know how you sort out the useful nuggets from the rubbish. - Daniel Norton
Daniel, you can't, not when you're subscribed to that many. It's like a firehose. The info just keeps coming. I honestly have no idea why Thomas and Robert and others do this to themselves. You'd need to do nothing else all day but to watch the FF or Twitter page if you wanted to keep up with it all, and even then I think you'd miss a lot of updates from people. - Raoul Pop
I don't follow thousands of people on FriendFeed or Twitter, but even with the hundreds that I do follow, I feel like I'm dipping my toe in a rushing stream. Luckily, there is search. And in FriendFeed, comments and likes keep things bubbling. - Ontario Emperor
Is there an easy way of doing this in bulk, or did you click subscribe on 1000 accounts? - Duncan Riley
At what point does it become too much to handle? - Morton Fox
Duncan, unfortunately there was not a way to do this in bulk. Morton, I'm not sure it will ever be too much to handle thanks to hiding things. It's a balance. - Thomas Hawk