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To be honest, I find TweetDeck easier to use, but I'm still fairly new to Friendfeed. I have a much better community on Twitter too. - Gregor Spowart

Same for me. How do you RT on this thing? - Stephen

Hmm.. how did you get subscribers number posted on the top right, mine shows nothing. - Ganeemathullah

@Stephen, I think you click the Share button @Ganeemathullah - I've no idea! You have a private feed so that may have something to do with it? - Gregor Spowart

How about now? - Stephen

Maybe because it was set to private. I turned it off and tried to importing back from twitter. Nothing. - Ganeemathullah

@Stephen - Tx, I have 1 subscriber now :) - Ganeemathullah

and we'll need a backup solution in case friendfeed goes down. Facebook ? plurk ? what would it be ? - Mihai Secasiu

FriendFeeds not like Twitter in 2 respects. 1. It's more reliable. 2. Threaded conversations mean you can go back to it after a few hours and catch-up with everything. - Jim Connolly

Jim, Twitter is a picture of reliability. It NEVER goes down ;-) - Gregor Spowart

OPEN QUESTION: What Internet browser's are *you* using? - Jim Connolly

Chrome for browsing, FF for SEO and IE for coding/debugging! - Gregor Spowart

FireFox for 95%. Chrome for the rest. - Jim Connolly

Have been testing Flock and really like it. Was made for social networking and has some great standard features like an RSS button. Also use Camino and Safari. - Nicola Quinn

Firefox and Chrome -- I can't abandon Firefox yet because of some irreplaceable add-ons. - Sean McBride

Sean: Yep - Chrome with the add ons would be a compelling alternative to FireFox - Jim Connolly

Firefox primarily, though its recent performance issues have me thinking about looking at Chrome. - Jared Smith

Jim -- I expect to see developers of Firefox add-ons to turn their attention to Chrome in the coming year. The competition should be invigorating. Unlike Internet Explorer, which in my opinion has been dead in the water for at least two years, Firefox is still a vital product. - Sean McBride

Sean -- Agreed! - Jim Connolly

I only use IE for testing sites (for it's non-com pliancy issues with CSS). Other wise I avoid it like the plague (well it is about as useful as a plague of locusts isn't it?) - Ian May

Sorry to hear you're stepping back from Twitter, Jim - though I totally understand your reasoning. When someone has generated a huge following, like you have, I would imagine managing it is very time consuming indeed. - SEOAly

Indeed, I have a fraction of followers as you, and I find it to be a time suck and exhausting. I know there are tools to thread the tweets, etc., however, I'm on "tool" and "app" overload. In any regard, I'll join you here...I've been on FF for a bit, yet I have only just started using it in earnest. Cheers! - Regina Rainwater

I understand your decision to move to FF and I think I'll also explore that option! We'll talk soon as you're one of the people I love to talk to. - Holli B.

I am very sorry to hear you are leaving Twitter, though with the time you spent on it, I certainly understand why. I haven't quite "drank the FriendFeed Kool-aid," but I would be very curious to hear your take as to the benefits of FF vs. Twitter as some time passes. (If there are benefits.) Much respect to you. - Jennifer Mitchell

Hey Jim, I hear you, Friend Feed is certainly a better filter however the interface needs a Deck. Hopefully a fully featured one is not far away. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... If this becomes a fully featured reality I don't think I will need a web "browser" any more, just a web page viewer. - Digital Ministry

Jim, only for you would I try to figure out yet one more computer "thing." I am already on computer savvy overload! If you get a second, would you please tell me where to go to learn about friendfeed? I miss you! - ClaudiaBroome

Would never even have given Friend Feed another thought: one man can change the fortunes of a social networking platform. - coffee_offline

Friendfeed really is the best...! - James Fridley

I would stay on Twitter, but use FriendFeed to view twitter. - Paul Kinlan from Friend Deck

Digital Ministry, what do you think I need to do make FriendDeck fully featured? - Paul Kinlan from Friend Deck

Hey Paul, thanks for building FriendDeck, Its pretty cool. Drop me an email and I will send you my suggestions. brad@digitalministry.com.au - Digital Ministry from Friend Deck

Jim, I'm hoping you'll count me as one of those you will stay in contact with through friendfeed. I value all I've learned from you and your contribution to Twitter and now Friendfeed, either way. - Kelli Parisian

Not all twitterzens are marketeers. Good luck but don't blame Twitter because you can't time manage two things at once. - Phil Boiarski

Twitter can definitely be a 'blackhole' of time. - Traci Knoppe

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, you've given me something to think about with my own Twitter use. - Andy Beal

Friend feed can also integrate back into your comments on your blog if you work on it :) - Doug aka Nullvariable

I too found it was hard to keep up & too much time on my bum in front of this screen! Thanks for the tip on friendfeed...we'll see if I can get this figured out :) You are stuck with me following you around like a lost pup! lol - Jaimie Hernandez

Being a newbie to social networks and blogging, I too have spent a lot of time just on Twitter. I'm not having the same problem as you are but just knowing your situation is understandable and gives me some perspective. I have subscribed to your news letter and hope to learn more from you. Thanks! - Carol

Jim-- just follow back only the people you want to interact with. Stop keeping an eye on every new follower. You'll just run into the same problem with friendfeed. It's not a "tool" problem, it's a "wanting to do it ALL" problem. You don't have to keep everything two-way - it's just not possible (that's what managing "fame/celebrity" intelligently comes down to, you know -- accepting that). - Stephanie Booth

Hi Jim - I'm really sorry to hear you have left Twitter - I have just set this up to follow you here. Still getting to grips with it! Hope you are well :-) - Leila

WOW! Thanks for the comments. Twitter was fun, enjoying FriendFeed now. Had almost 100% positive response. Great not to have 200 DM's waiting for me each day. They call FF a hose of information - BS! Try using a 20k strong twitter network for 24 hours :) Only people who didn't get my point, were all following less than a few thousand. This is easy and a LOT more fun for me too. Thanks again! It's all about freedom of choice. - Jim Connolly

With that many followers, Jim, I see your point. I still have a small following and it's still manageable, but I can see where it will get to the point of being impossible to manage. I've been using FF for awhile now, sending what I find via StumbleUpon & other services here - and then broadcast out to Twitter. I look forward to your future articles. - Erich Miller

Nice post Jim. :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Jim - Stephanie Booth is right. IMHO you needed to alter the way your fame lets you manage Twitter, not leave it. 22,000 people benefited from your insight... even if they didn't engage you - but they always had the chance if need be. You will just run into the problem here eventually and be forced to manage another problem. You're happy not to have 200 DM's waiting? What? You don't want 200 people to interact? Or weer they all fluff DM's. What is the diff b/t that and 200 comments here on FF? - Michael J. Pratt

Michael. Thanks for the kind words. 95% of the DM's were people asking me to tweet links for them or asking me to 'recommend' them to my followers. What you call 'fluff.' Unless I am missing something (if I am please explain it) I totally fail to see what you and Stephanie warned me of - that I can have this same DM problem here? Is there something about FF I need to know about, I would REALLY appreciate someone telling me. Had a 100% positive experience here so far. Thanks Michael. - Jim Connolly

Those who followed Jim over to FriendFeed and are new here may find the links I've included in my FriendFeed Quick Start Post useful. See http://www.growmap.com/friendf.... We have some of the same types of issues here but since Paul DOES participate at times I'm still hoping he'll pull some of his more serious FF promoters in as advisors. That hasn't happened yet so far as I know but we do have the FF Feedback room at http://friendfeed.com/rooms.... - Internet Strategist

One word of advice for anyone new to FF. Subscribe judiciously and let the power of Friend of Friend do the heavy lifting. - AJ Kohn

Just had someone suggest to me that you left Twitter for FF due to FF offering you shares etc. I know it's not true but you might want to knock that rumour on the head! - Gregor Spowart

I've been telling people for weeks that "engagement" is the key to the mutual benefits of twitter. But, if I get to the same status as you, having to spend all day filtering followers and DMs, then I'd set up a twitterfeed and say goodbye to the little blue bird too - David Bradley

@Gregor - Shares in FriendFeed? It amazes me how people come up with this stuff. It's flattering that they wrongly assume that the FF people even know I exist. :-) - Jim Connolly

Jim, welcome to FF! You will note that it is impossible for me to "send" you anything... all I can do is engage in conversation on a thread of yours, or "call out your name" on a thread of mine. And that's why this whole thing scales well, is real-time-friendly, and allows you to follow up on conversions at YOUR convenience. And FYI, I'm echoing FF to twitter but not the reverse...so people know where I am. You may not want to do that however! - Richard ¿digame? Walker

Richard, thanks for the welcome! Your point is a good one - people were telling me yesterday that I would end up with the SAME problem here, as I had with 23k followers DM'ing me on Twitter. I'm about 10 days in as a regular FF user & it's been 100% positive & extremely enjoyable. I'm finding so much useful content here.Thanks ;-) - Jim Connolly

hi jim, i was going to ask you the same thing, that do you really relate with those thousands and do they relate back, cos from what i am noticing most dont even interact, they just follow and unfollow and do the cycle over and over. but i still love twitter cos of the people i have met, sometimes i just make my updates private so as to prevent random people from adding me.... look forward to reading ur friend feed - elnatobi

Couldn't agree more with you about the threaded conversations. They are richer on FF without the 140 character restriction. - Neill Adamson

Elnatobi: Twitter has the 'numbers' but lacks the ability for people to REALLY communicate. I used to have my conversations with my followers on my blog. INTERESTINGLY almost all of the Twitter followers who were interested in actually having a conversation are here on FF too! - Jim Connolly

Exactly what I did 2 weeks back. I wasn't all too bothered about it's new features until I tried it and it helps to cut down the noise while maintaining organization. - Jonathan Kong

I signed up for FF a looong time ago, but never really used it. Did a complete re-org and friend management last week and am much more on top of it now. Still need to tweak a little though. Now, if FF would implement some of the features for commenting that SocialThing does ... I'd be golden! - tj hanton