They were down yesterday too. Does anyone know exactly what is the source of the scaling problems over there? Is it all RoR stuff? - Will Eisner

Given that FriendFeed has there own message posting system you wonder whether Twitter can really differentiate with this many outages. - Rob Diana

It's as if Twitter scheduled its own Twit-Out. But FriendFeed needs some more love before it can be an outright replacement. - Jennifer Leggio

I'm starting to like FriendFeed, but the one thing I will miss from Twitter is the actual sending of SMS status updates when my close friends tweet - Alexander Falk via twhirl

As I told Mike, I wasn't planning on using FriendFeed except for feed aggregation but now it's super-frustrating to keep trying to log into Twitter :( - Mario Sundar

@Alexander - get the mobile side sorted (mobile web and SMS) and FF can be a contender but it needs that extra support - Colin Walker

how will all my followers (over 5,000) find me here? - paul terry walhus

You nail it! - Jan Tielens

If FriendFeed gets the following that Twitter has, how do we know it won't buckle the same way? Maybe stability is ensured by being the runner up rather than the prom king. We'll have to see. I still don't think it's a replacement. - Jennifer Leggio

is it just me or does the commenting feature for FF via Twhirl suck majorly? I wrote two better comments that are now toast, thx to Twhirl (I think) - Jennifer Van Grove via twhirl

Non-early adopters are just now getting into Twitter, I don't know if they are ready for FF. - Kevin Bondelli

Jennifer L - I get the sense of security knowing that the same guys who developed Gmail and Google Maps, helped build FriendFeed. They know a thing or two about scalability. But like you said, we'll have to see. - Bwana

Jennifer V.G. - It needs major improvement. I'm sticking with the website for now. - Bwana

Bwana - Agreed. One other improvement - away to notify people of comments, likes, and messages directed toward them. Easy for it to get buried if you walk away for a few. - Jennifer Leggio

Twhirl will change the focus while you're typing a comment. It's absolutely ridiculous and annoying. - Rahsheen ™

is this some sort of preparation for Twit-out? - Iain Baker

I think this is the Twit-Out. But Twitter just stole the power. heh. jk - Jennifer Leggio

@jason - yes the team maybe from google, but the app is built with ruby on rails. This leads to the question /debate which is not scalable RUBY or Rails ? more data here http://highscalability.com/scaling... - Peter Dawson

Twitter is really making me mad lately. Such a love/hate thing going on - Sarah Perez

FF seems to have more of a "point" and is probably easier to explain to folks who don't get tw. Aggregating as well as micro-blogging makes sense. - Elliot Tucker

@Kevin Bondelli - I'm a non adopter of Twitter and I get FF just fine. - metageoff

@Geoff Longman - I guess I am thinking about some of my friends in politics that have a hard time with it - Kevin Bondelli

I don't know about you, but twit out or not... my twitter bookmarks are moving out of the way for friendfeed bookmarks. that says something more then anything - NoahDavidSimon