I think the opposite is a better question. If you follow 1600, what percent of the posts do you read? - Jeremy Malin

I happen to read this one :). But yeah it's easy to miss things. Only a very small percentage of posts get bubbled up and these are all the posts people read when they go to Friendfeed - Andre P. Siregar

Jeremy: Good point. I use groups and tend to dip into and out of them. Timing is key. - Jim Connolly

Andre: Yes, if a 'popular' FriendFeed user comments on your feed, it makes a huge difference. - Jim Connolly

Yes, the numbers are small unless you get engagement, then it goes way up. - Robert Scoble

Good point Mr Scoble! - Jim Connolly

so active reader is the key - kang

kang: yes, because if your item gets likes or comments that item gets shown to all of that user's followers, which is how your item will get a large audience. - Robert Scoble

lack of a decent desktop/iphone client doesn't help either. - Shivanand Velmurugan

The moment I entered, I happened to read this one! Random reads are best sometimes... - ilaxi

Also, if Scoble comments, you get a lot of eyeballs :) (which is how I noticed this, yup I have a separate group called "Scobles", which has 2 ppl in it) - Shivanand Velmurugan

This thread had not had a comment for ages, til Scoble commented. - Jim Connolly

We should get Scoble and Dave Winer to stop using twitter and FF for 2 weeks, and see what happens to the traffic stats :) - Shivanand Velmurugan

Jim: the thing is it was on the top of my browser when I first signed in this morning. So someone clicking like or commenting got it on my radar screen. - Robert Scoble

I think FF is based on "word-of-mouth" or "likes", which probably is the only way posts get noticed (atleast if one follows >50 ppl). Lists help to track specific persons, but ultimately, it's likes that determines how much attention a specific post gets.The amount of data to process is still quite enormous. It would really kewl, if FF can pick 20 items that are most relevant (based on social data) to me in the last 24 hours. - Shivanand Velmurugan

Likes are certainly a MASSIVE part of gaining people's attention here. - Jim Connolly

Actually, that is the very same question I'm asking right now. How do you view Friendfeed feeds Jim? - nesh thompson

It would be cool if we could have Google Analytics support on FriendFeed so we could measure traffic from Google and all thing else. - Svartling

Eric - I agree. Many people use FF purely as a place to 'dump' crap from Twitter / blip / facebook etc. - Jim Connolly

As FriendFeed gets more crowded, even people with lots of followers need to follow my advice for finding their audience. That is, wait for the conversation that your post would be helpful for, and then help it. Like you said, timing is key. Details at http://ourdoings.com/ourdoin... - Bruce Lewis

I agree with Scoble. Friendfeed is all about engagement. Some people follow others just to "have them on their list" but they could care less what you have to say 90% of the time.. To me, that is purpose defeating on a service like Twitter or Friendfeed. It's all about engagement and community. - John Fox

John, if I could care less what someone has to say 90% of the time, I probably wouldn't follow them. I'd follow someone who tends to 'Like' the same 10% I do. For a long time I didn't follow Robert Scoble until one day I went into his feed and saw some things I liked that nobody else 'Liked'. - Bruce Lewis

Bruce: I did say "some people". My statement doesn't apply to everyone, obviously. - John Fox

I read you everyday Jim - Wayne Dibert

Ah, right. Apologies, John. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

After 3 hours of posting my initial message here, there has been 13 'likes' and 19 comments (including my own) from 1,600 subscribers. I find that interesting. - Jim Connolly

Well, Jim, timing is a huge part of it. This post was made at 4:30 EDT, which means the bulk of the US wasn't awake (or, at least not FFing) to see it. Assuming your subscriber distribution is similar to the FF user distribution, taking out the entire US population from your readership is going to decrease the overall % of people that see the post. - FFing Enigma

Jim, I've also seen your comment,but as I have nothing futher to add to what has already been said,I have left it be. - Paul Downing

Bruce: No problem. That's what 'Net communites are all about - expressing opinions and ideas. - John Fox

I think Jeremy has the right idea. I see many of these "marketing" gurus "following" thousands of people. I wonder what their stream looks like. I'd prefer to engage a few hundred than blast to thousands. - Keith James Designs

Wayne: Thanks! - Jim Connolly

Nesh: I started off by subscribing to Robert Scoble, as we have many similar interests. Then, I found people in Scobles stream who were really interesting, so I subscribed to their feeds. Pretty soon I was following some really interesting people. I LOVE FriendFeed - I just do! - Jim Connolly

Tina: As usual, you make a great point. My tech news blog's readership is mainly American & because I mention FF so often there, I have quite a few US based FF buddies. I try & take that into account when posting on the blog AND here on FF too. - Jim Connolly

I love the fact you can customize friendfeed in this way, so I can read the feeds I want in the way I want to. Power to the user :) On Twitter, you do think that more people would be reading the message? I doubt it. - Asgeir

FF is massively more configurable than Twitter. This thread could not have happened on Twitter. - Jim Connolly

Bill: You make a good point. By following what our friends are commenting on and liking, we get to discover interesting resources / people. - Jim Connolly

I do - atanas

I have put some thoughts about this here: http://bit.ly/CrMGM -- this was a post that I had waited to write a long time. - Jorge Escobar

Agreement here... IMO "real time" has made things more so.... timing more important, participation by popular users more important. Most stuff floats down the RT stream unnoticed, right into the bit bucket. - Richard Walker

I always wonder that. No one ever comments on my crap. Then again, I probably have too much noise. Oh well - I use friendfeed more to comment on other people's stuff. - George Smith

I came, I saw, I read. I commented. - Mark J Colonel Colonic

This happens in Twitter too. But People still have conversation here - Michael_techie

Engagement and participation... I think you can give more and receive more here because of the expanded conversation. People will follow you here because they are interested in what you have to say/offer. It will be interesting to see where your FF is in the coming months : ) - Mark Harai

Hey, I'm just joining the conversation - what was it again? - Neil Ashworth