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Uh oh. Not as bad as the Dow but still... - Steve Rubel
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Is that really jumping the shark, or just leveling out? - K.G. Schneider
@KG time will tell. Twitter's rise continues http://tinyurl.com/5hdqyx - Steve Rubel
You know better than I do Steven, but I believe those who have not fully adopted online communications like those of us here regularly, abandon social media, (and perhaps a lot of internet uses), for more tactile time spend during downturns. I've witnessed folks behaviors changed en mass, directed by circumstances. Could be enough to explain most of that, because I think generally, their more tuned product is accelerating in usefulness. - Ed Shaz/NextInstinct
Whoa! what happened? - Susan Beebe
Unique visitors is an interesting statistic but it's clear that the real value to FF will be engagement. Returning visitors, visits per day, dwell time etc. will show the real power of FF. - AJ Kohn
So what are you doing to help turn this momentum around (goes for all of you above)? - Louis Gray
I think that the craziness of the economy has had an effect... people are spending more time off-line (I know I have) and less likely to be looking for new things. I think it will turn around after a while. - Lindsay Donaghe
I use FF in my email sig, tell friends, drop it in my blog from time to time. - AJ Kohn
Louis: my thesis. People aren't getting enough value out of this and are seeing it as a time drain. Also, I'm seeing people staying away from online sites that cover politics and economic news in order to stay away from mental pain. Those things get better in November. It'll be interesting to see if the line goes back up then. But we need new features to cure the first thing. I think they are on the way. - Robert Scoble
I thinking the same thing as Robert. I also think that many avid users have found that this can be an incredible time sink, and have had to back off a little. - Jeff P. Henderson
could also be attributed to employees spending more time on their tasks and less time browsing FF. - Tsega Dinka
but I also pedict that with winter around the corner and more people spending longer hours indoors, the traffic will be going back up. - Tsega Dinka
Louis, I may have just converted my wife - does that count? ;-) - Jesse Stay
maybe if there were more Joe 6pack examples of the value in the world Joe lives in they would be more inclined to use it. Telling people how important it is won't teach them as well as showing them by example. - Chris Kim A
Noise. - Mike Reynolds
Friendfeed jumped for me when it became a chat room for popular bloggers and their stalkerish followers. Give me twitter with Twitscoop any day. - Wayne Schulz
Maybe FF would like to give its fans incentives to help them be successful. I keep hoping some company has the guts to try to include their users in the prosperity we create, together. It's a good time for out of the box thinking, no? - Dave Hussein Winer
heck, if friendfeed would consider sharing revenues from ads in the rooms - that would really be something! - Zee from WeDoCreative
Could you layer the stock market graph over the same timeframe? Would there be a similarity in the graphs? - Hutch Carpenter
@Wayne..haha and twitter isn't a chat room for popular bloggers & stalkerish followers...? lol... - Zee from WeDoCreative
Does the drop correlate with the release of the list feature? - todd
todd - there's an interesting question. - Hutch Carpenter
If it really is a drop (it's not a drop in traffic btw, just the number of times it's been mentioned on the web, a measure of buzz if anything) it probably correlates to Twitter becoming reliable again and luring back its users, which was a slow process of rebuilding trust. There's absolutely no doubt, looking at the graph, that FF benefited when Twitter was going down all the time. - Dave Hussein Winer
This is a bad trend for FF, period - Ben Parr
what goes up must come down.. natural even for tech... - Mark L
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