Good use case of FriendFeed: use it as a group function for twitter. A group of editors of a Dutch civil servants blog (www.ambtenaar20.nl are interesting in a group function for their tweets on twitter. I have aggregated their twitter feeds into a semi public room; and have embedded this on my blog
Why not drop Twitter altogether, and do one's tweeting through Friendfeed?
- Sean McBride
i use both, read twitter, post on ff mainly cause i have this double post problem on twitter i can't work out - when i post on t it feeds to ff which then bounces back to t.
- ernie yacub
Sean: good point, I would like to do that. The point is that the community that I join (Dutch civil servants) only know Twitter; some of them have experimented a bit with FF, but find it too difficult to use. This use case is the first time that they get enthousiastic about FF! That is why I also have made the instruction presentation; to make it easier for them to start with FF.
- Jeroen De Miranda
Jeroen -- as they progress up the learning curve, and as FF improves the user interface and noise reduction features, I suspect they will abandon Twitter and move over to FF. In the meantime, your workarounds are useful and impressive.
- Sean McBride
Sean: indeed, hope this will be the case. I think that NL is about 1 year behind the USA in terms of adaption and knowledge of social media; so people are just starting with twitter right now; and find FF still too complicated. Perhaps FF should also be more positioned as a powerful integration tool (this twitter integration is a good example IMO)
- Jeroen De Miranda
Thank you lots Jeroen! It's something I've wanted to do for a while now.
- Isha (Marysia)
I'm really curious what FF's Twitter integration is going to look like, if anything. I'm not fond of "just drop Twitter in favor of FF". Isn't the whole point of FF that we tie into existing online social apps (which have their own inherent goodness of some sort or another)?
- Edward Zwart