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I think the pressure to be present on all these services has to find its own level. - Francine Hardaway from PeopleBrowsr

I thought "there's no wrong way to eat a Reese's"? - MicahBear78

Without naming names (or with naming names :)) can you expand on what you mean by outsourcing conversations? - Joe Bonner from PeopleBrowsr

Joe, some "big names" have their lackeys twitter for them. I'm not aware of something similar happening on FF though. - Chrimmus Tad from fftogo

If someone is doing that on FF, I want to know who it is so I can unfollow them. - Rochelle

Well, by posting on Twitter and in your WebStrategist blog, you contribute to FriendFeed as well, so no problem here :) - Pavlo Zahozhenko

Tad: Thanks. I understand now (and I think I even know at least one that does this). - Joe Bonner from PeopleBrowsr

Joe Bonner. Many of the top bloggers have assistants that do their tweeting, blogging, and email for them. - Jeremiah Owyang

Thanks for the reply, Jeremiah. - Joe Bonner

With a day job, it's hard to find time to cover all possible bases. I follow you on most of the sites that you use and I think you do a great job of covering where you can. - Tim Miner

THanks Tim! - Jeremiah Owyang

I think it makes your conversations more valuable - just keep doing what you're doing Jeremiah. We know you're busy. - Jesse Stay

...we're all so busy, it's amazing anyone gets anything done, let alone keep up with this realtime 2010 Web, or whatever you want to call it. - .LAG liked that

@JOwyang you could pipe you @replies into a private group and do the majority of tweeting from Friendfeed. With the following you have and the interest in your content you'll never leave - Deano @ Byron New Media

I think of FF participation in a Zen way. Consistent, persistent, or irregular engagement all "count" in my book. - Pete Delucchi from iPhone

It's an outrage! Because of your lack of FF usage I am considering canceling my subscription to FF altogether. - Steve Arrowood

Dude. You don't need to post any explanations. - Daniel B. Honigman

Keep going, your honesty is refreshing!! - Guillaume Foutry

Friendfeed!! - Hans Kainz

FriendFeed FTW und so - Marcel Weiß

On a side note - my PageRank for my Twitter profile is equal to that of my blog, and my blog is a few years older - andy brudtkuhl

Twitter is expanding its search capabilities, not Google. :) - Larry Hawes

@larry - exactly.. so where does it say that Google will start indexing Twitter content? - andy brudtkuhl

Brian: it is worse than it appears. The PR class I spoke to is seeing problems show up in Twitter's engagement too. - Robert Scoble

I'm not surprised at all. Twitter is what you make of it. It asks you "what are you doing"... and mainstream users take that literally. For all they know, its *still* just like Facebook's status updates. Its so simple that it's actually difficult for people to understand. I've seen this pattern in my friends who are casual users of social networks. They sign up because they heard about it on t.v, or magazine or through a celeb, tweet, then never come back. They don't seem to understand Twitter. - Violet Mae Lim

Twitter takes some time to gel. Until you discover it's potential via a good client and friend base it's little more than two tin cans and some fishing line. - mal

I really wouldn't make too much of it. My own usage ebbs and flows, my attitude changes all the time about how to use it. People will dip in and out. I think the model is very flexible, but I think the main issue is their technology or lack thereof. It always slow and practically down once a day. They've had tech issues from the beginning and don't seem to be interested in solving them. - Stephen Pickering

The 'What are you doing?' issue is something Twitter should have addressed a long time ago. It really needs to be "What would you like to share?" or possibly a rotating/random list of questions that prompts the newcomer to try different things, each with a clickable example. They can only blame themselves if many folk consider it as an alternative Facebook update. I still see an enormous amount of "... is blah blah blah" from new users. - Shéa Bennett

It will be interesting to see if the Twitter buzz can continue or whether Twitter can re-engage with new sign ups. At Internet World in London this week some marketers were disillusioned with it. Even before the mainstream sign ups, the early adopter usage ebbed and flowed.. most of my facebook friends who looked at it first left only to return again to follow celeb gossip.. - Riaz Kanani

Riaz, that's a telling comment, is it not? Backs up what I said elsewhere on FF. My gut says most of the 6/10 not staying are fans of the richer Facebook/MySpace experience, and as you suggest only dip into Twitter to see what their favourite celebrities are saying. - Shéa Bennett

The fact that they're even reporting 30% retention surprises me! On several well maintained accounts I manage which put out useful content I've got several thousand followers and steadily growing, but the number of trackable clickthru's via bit.ly API shows that the number of people reading content is staying much more "flat" relative to the increasing follower numbers. Other Twitter... more... - Chris Aldrich