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LOL. RIAA Jr? - Shawn Farner

yeah, really. - edythe

I agree with Mo. Without twitter, friendfeed loses a source of data AND a source of potential users. Without friendfeed, twitter also loses a source of data and potential users. As with all the services which feed to friendfeed, there are gains and losses in both directions. - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane

You may want to read the linked article, in case you hadn't. - Jack Baty

It's and "AND' not an "OR' - Jeremiah Owyang

+1 Jeremiah - Susan Beebe

The idea of FriendFeed replacing Google is kind of exhilarating. It's about as likely to happen as seeing a live dragon flying over Terra Haute but it's a thrilling idea nonetheless. - Akiva Moskovitz

I prefer an XOR relationship - find the elements of FriendFeed that Twitter can't replace and use FF for that. Find the elements of Twitter that FF can't replace and use Twitter for that. :) - Jesse Stay

This argument does not hold up for me. Remember when you had to have your phone in one pocket and your camera in another pocket? But now you can have them both together? Friendfeed has all of the functionality of Twitter so you can do your broadcasting bursts, and people can see them in their streams just the same. However, there is a lot of additional functionality that is valuable and after sometime, you can finally see how Twitter is only needed for legacy purposes. - Andrew Baron

@Jack - I did. I still think I make a valid point. I haven't joined in with any previous twitter v friendfeed discussions, so i figured it was time to stick my beak in and see what comes out. ;-) - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane

Andrew, FriendFeed still doesn't have very good messaging capabilities, like direct messaging and/or (xor) public messages (that aren't replies). Also, FriendFeed does not have the friends I have on Twitter yet as well. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

@akiva I don't think Google will die, but what you already see is that people use Twitter to ask their friends a question and often get an answer for stuff like "In paris, know a restaurant?" When I search now for "Demand Media" I find out what my "friends" think about the current news. Just as one example. - Oliver Thylmann

Plurk is in a class by itself....A class that a lot of people sleep through, or skip entirely. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

I am in the skip entirely class - Marcello Del Bono

Skip - Steve Isaacs

plurk is like Myspace. Way too noisy :\ - Mona Nomura from fftogo

Plurk's a great tool, edgy and a lot of fun. It's a lateral move from Twitter. - Andy DeSoto

Plurk is out of sight & nowhere to be found...... - ChaCha Fance from Alert Thingy

Plurk is fun and informative, being able to bookmark individual plurk conversations is very helpful. twitter makes a 'i just farted' comments very annoying because you have to keep refreshing to get to the useful tweets, on Plurk you get the exact same info by scrolling down the time line. - Darren Daz Cox

I think Plurk appeals to a different form of user than Twitter or FF. Those whom like Plurk seem to have always been dissatisfied with Twitter/FF. It's a 'where are you comfortable' question. - Lucretia Pruitt

Twitter groups = Solution, also option to silence certain ppl you're subscribed to. - Joseph Rodgers

also, identi.ca could be the death blow to twitter. Open source is pretty genious. - Joseph Rodgers

Plurk is my new hangout. Conversations there have been a lot better than Twitter lately - Jason Peck

Plurk will end up just being a micro-blogging experiment in UI - but it won't last. It doesn't present anything new that is valueable. And just because it is getting a lot of responses to comments doesn't mean the comments are any good. It will probably stick around like Pownce has, but it will never have enough people to get to main stream. - Tony

I agree that Plurk has gone it's own way. It's a super interactive Twitter with lite Pownce features. It's a nichenetwork® - Mike Lewis

Agree with @MikeLewis. I see lots of groups forming in there that love it's *chat* and *forum* like features. - Barbara K. Baker

Plurk = Twitter+myspace (young, girly and ugly interface). There is a way to remove karma points now which helps. The timeline/bubbled conversations are interesting but difficult to track. I have noticed that there is a great deal more commenting as @MikeLewis has said. - chantelle

its not. - Tony

plurk has it's own community, I don't see it as a threat but just another micro-blogging social network to cut out some of the noise on twitter - Wayne Sutton

For me, plurk was too similar and yet not simple enough- I like Tw and FF b/c of their simplicity and functionality. Plurk is like Tw plus some mandatory Tw apps that I don't really like. And honestly, I didn't try it a whole lot because Tw already occupied that function for me. - Brian Carter

Like Tony said, it's not. I don't think they're the same kind of beast. Hell, if you really wanted me to, I could write a Friendfeed vs. Twitter vs. Plurk post. But that would be repeating a lot of what I already blogged about in Twitter vs. Plurk here: http://www.techipedia.com/2008.... The difference is that Friendfeed is a LOT more about sharing sites above all, I think. - Tamar Weinberg

Plurk and Pownce are the same type of service as Friendfeed not twitter. But Friendfeed easily beats them both. This is simply because instead of having to build people's connections and posting habits all over again friendfeed just plugs into all the places they already are - and to the places where they already have connection. Then they can have one place to comment and share it all. SunTzu level strategy there... - Tony

ping all - lot´s of talk on plurk and sometimes twitter - Dieter Schwarz

agree with Dieter "ping.fm" all of them; but the community still is with Twitter IMO - Charlie Hope from twhirl

I'm sticking with where the community is - mark

all - Czar

Twitter. They'll get it sorted out. - john conroy

twitter rules. - michele mondora from twhirl

twitter. People actually still use Jaiku? - Mike Hussein Cohen

Interesting that jaiku is not much used. It has comments and groups, as well as native feeds ingestion, still missing (or not needed?) on Twitter. It lacks other things, such as direct messages, anyway. - Marco Castellani

Sneak down quietly and do them all... with Ping.fm - Robert Sanzalone

Identi.ca isn't stable enough. it seems to be worse than Twitter, so what's the point I switch to it? - Jansen Lu

twitter has the people, so we stay... the others are most likely too late, unless twitter goes down hard for weeks or something else catastrophic - Nathan Chase

I am curious where Identica or Kwippy can go. Twitter has the users, so until it dies or there is a significant move to something else, that is where I am staying. - Rob Diana

I go where you go. - Robert Scoble

For me... friendfeed - Sachendra

Twitter, because it is where everyone is and immediate, FriendFeed for conversations and other stuff though I still need to get to following a bunch of people to get a real river of news going on, Identi.ca is interesting seeing what develops over there, and Jaiku what goes on over there? - Justin Yost

I like twitter . . . can't get the hang of identi.ca . . but PLURK is alot of fun and very easy to get started. And you get the satisfaction of an almost instantaneous response from "the crowd". - Telemill

There is a huge microblogging activity while Dad Twitter sleeps - Igor Poltavskiy

I tried getting back onto Jaiku but it's a ghost town, despite the early promise of the service. Too early on Identi.ca yet, but I'm impressed to see regular activity a week later in my timeline. - Duncan Riley

so the user base decided the game. - Jansen Lu

Since discovering FF, I've strayed from all - Mona Nomura

Twitter - don't fight it. Plurk for back-up. - Nigel Eccles

all lead to FF - Noah David Simon

Plurk and Jaiku are horrible.. 1. FF 2. Twitter 3. bright kite :) - Mona Nomura

What makes that Pownce isn't (more) successful? - Lyonel Kaufmann

IMO Pownce is more like Tumblr or Posterous.. and there's no 'public' tab/screen - Mona Nomura

I prefer FriendFeed over everything, and at the moment there is no contest between Twitter and Identi.ca. I logged onto Twitter this morning to friend somebody back, and couldn't... the whole things was down (again). - Jonathan Beckett

Thanks Mona for your response! ;-) - Lyonel Kaufmann

Lyonel, my gut feeling is telling me that it's all about simplicity. - Alex Popescu from twhirl

Of course Lyonel :) - Mona Nomura