Wow. It took you that long Robert. You early adopter you. Did someone squat your name on identi.ca or did you get @scobleizer? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I was an early adopter of Twhirl, but when Twitter had all of its problems I moved away from clients and just used the Web page. - Robert Scoble
why does twhirl keep notifying me of the same content - Mike Szczygiel via twhirl
All the identi.ca talk is really starting to wear away on my nerves. Identi.ca is just one instance of laconi.ca, and as such is just another single point of failure just like Twitter. In fact, it's probably no more stable than Twitter was two years ago. All these tools pointing at identi.ca totally miss the fact that the real advantage of laconi.ca, the open source service, can run on many other servers and not just identi.ca. However, there's no way tools like Twhirl can support all laconi.ca instances. - Ken Sheppardson
twihrl gives me nothing but problems. I can't use my scrollwheel because it scrolls two full pages with each click, on every PC i've used it on, regardless of configuration. It's a memory hog for the little it does, and everytime I click a link, it opens the page twice. I' ve tried reinstalling it to no avail, anyone else having these problems? - Richard Lawler via twhirl
Is there any way to easily add all twitter friends in identi.ca? - Mike Cohen via twhirl
Yeah. I use it for the "other" services I use, and also when I have my Macbook hooked up to my 56" HD set, but I really wish they would consolidate the 4 windows into single window with multiple tabs. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Ken: personally it's just another point to communicate with you other than Twitter. Our system is becoming stronger thanks to these. Now we have FF, Twitter, and Identi.ca and Plurk. Four ways. Will all four systems go down at the same time? Doubtful. - Robert Scoble
@mike3K ah, the holy grail of data portability! when is open mesh arriving! - The Pageman
I'd kill for them to add an RSS reader into it. - Bradley McSpinn
Why not just use Ping.fm and Gtalk as a client? - Rutger Blom
I like Twhirl. They keep adding support for other clients. - Jim Williams
twhirl def needs an rss reader and a way to combine account windows into one - Mike Szczygiel via twhirl
I used to like Twhirl but now I use TweetDeck. It is amazing and its a great way to manage your Twitter feeds. You should give it a try. A new version is about to come out with notifications if that is one of the things you are looking for. Im testing it right now and it works really well. - pcnerd37
I moved from Twhirl to TweeterDeck and then to FriendFeed and Identi.ca back to FF. - Scot Duke
Why is it that, when I try to update Twhirl, Firefox just wants me to download an .air file? When I click the .air file, nothing happens. - Bradley McSpinn
Robert: I think you mentioned that on GG yesterday... wanted to respond then :-) Relying on four+ independent services (or four devices for that matter ;-) might work for a select few, but for this stuff to move beyond the "twitterati" some service needs to provide utility-like reliability. "Oh, my phone is broken today, I'll just write a letter" won't be acceptable to the main stream. A true open source twitter-like cloud could do that. Identi.ca can't, at least not any time soon. - Ken Sheppardson
seconding and thirding @Mike Szczygiel: "twhirl def needs...a way to combine account windows into one" - Derrick Burns
Twhirl's creators have promised, very soon, some other than multiple floating windows. But I don't get the popularity of TweetDeck. I found the interface overly rigid and far less usable. Twhirl is what I'm sticking with -- and I keep notifications off. (Notifications, beyond direct messages or even replies, seem like a time suck to me.) - Peter Kirn via twhirl
@Peter Kirn: not to mention that the incessant 'bing!' on every tweet is enough to make you schizophrenic. - Derrick Burns
Scoble just said shiznit. This is now tagged as BEST TWEET EVAR. - Rob Diana
But are you going to come up with a Twhirl gang sign to complement the FriendFeed gang sign? Fotwizzle. - Ontario Emperor
using post-to-any-service clients is like suffering from disorganized schizophrenia at a block party. it just ain't fun for all participants - thomas marban via Alert Thingy
identi.ca feels like a step backwards from FF. - Thomas Hawk
I also like Twhirl. It's simple and yet elegant. - imabonehead
@Thomas I think Identica (could be) a good independant service alongside FF, depending on how they grow their service of course. - Roger Kondrat
Its got the twitter disease. Thats why you should just come on over to friendfeed. we are talking about you here anyway :-) - Richard Binhammer
Thread comments.
Expose you, for better or worse, to people you're not following directly.
Support links, photos, video.
Aggregate lifestreams but allow you to filter out services (a la BrightKite, though I like BrightKite).
Identify "hot" topics and filter for them.
And yeah, not go down. Yet. - Ryan via fftogo
They shouldn't be compared. I need a bullhorn. - Bwana McCall
No "Gateway timeout HTTP 503 response" errors when third party apps communicate with their server. - Patrick Kearney
1. Importing feeds from other services. 2. Uptime. 3. Comments. 4. Imaginary Friends. - will killian
it's a lot easier to ignore people or conversations on FF. If I follow someone who makes 200 tweets a day, I have to wade through them on Twitter. On FF, I'm not subjected to that much stuff - Joseph Z.
FF works. Plus FF has threaded conversations. - wrecks
I think will killian pretty much has it. I also like the ability to see the content driving the most conversation, via the "Show best of" feature. Being able to pull feeds into rooms has a lot of potential as well. - Greg Schwartz
What I think neither of them do well is conversations. But FF definitely has the upperhand thus far - Rob Fuller
What would friendfeed be without Twitter? My concern for friend feed is that it can be self spamming, it seems cluttered in a way. Twitter is more light weight and desirable even on your mobile device. I will not deny that friend feed can do all that twitter can and some. I'm not yet confident calling it direct alternative, more like a good supplement to twitter for social network junkies such as ourselves. - Tatenda Mbavarira
FriendFeed lets me follow fewer people and get so much more in return. - blackmailismylife
This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This. - Hao Chen
It's a one-stop shop for EVERYthing someone updates. The flickr mini-gallery is a joy to look at and seeing responses from a "friend of a friend" is as neat as senor Scoble said. Only downside (for me) is that it's SO much info that I can't check it as quickly and casually as I would/do Twitter. - Alex
I second - not go down constantly. Also allows for ease of conversation grouping. Although for mobile I prefer Twitter. - Aunesty Janssen
FF aggregates content from tons of services, and Twitter doesn't. But they're two completely different services, you're comparing apples to oranges. Can I update FF via SMS? Can I post my location? Get replies from FF users via SMS? Can I plug unique services like Overheard or IOU into FF? No. - David Chartier
FF is much better at aggregating content and it lends itself well to in depth conversation threads. Twitter is easier to use for engaging in multiple chats at one time but harder to follow a single conversation thread. - Karen Swim
(1) community structures on ff. elitist "twitter whore" blockers are avoided here. if you block you will miss dialog. There are no other issues. social networks are inherently "social", and denying gender structure has always been the great flaw of society. friendfeed takes the sorority out! goodbye eMom and Volvo Soccer Moms! - Noah David Simon
I don't get to read only one side of a conversation when it happens with one of my FF friends. - Rodrigo Jaroszewski
It compiles everything, not just 140 character status updates, has comment threading, and is a better community overall - Grant
note that @amandachapel is rarely on friendfeed. think about why she wouldn't like it here! and why would Robert Scoble go on a private feed. Strumpette might be a man, but her personality is sorority like. Female structures get lost here. - Noah David Simon
I think of FF as Twitter plus bookmarking plus access to my friends' activities on networks I don't participate in (I don't use Seesmic or Jaiku, for example, but I like seeing when friends do). Plus commenting and likes are good. - Marshall Kirkpatrick
It has been said but needs repeating. Mutual symbiosis is the name of the game. They both fill a distinct need. - Mathew A. Koeneker
Marshall: agreed. It's a recommendation engine, too. You follow interesting people and their activities "recommend" interesting things that are worth you attention. - Steve Lynch via Alert Thingy
I don't like the FF threads. Time consuming. Becoming like IRC. Prefer Twitter. Simpler. - James Carroll
A lot of the comments best sums it up - It simply works. I also like the sense of community. I created a room, and I started topics. Those topics grew, and now people are starting their own topics in the room I created. The other good feature is that when one person comment everyone following them see your feed. Twitter could learn a lot from friendfeed. - Gerard Lagana
@noahdavidsimon interesting complexes has this lord Farquade (C) Shrek I - silpol
elitist personal attacks mean u didn't address my point silpol.1 liners work better on twitter, which is exactly my point. - Noah David Simon
twitter is to Ron Paul as friendfeed is to McCain. One liners to complex economic issues will not work here. friendfeed is closer to life. no more gold standard solutions. the guy in the back with a response will not be drowned out by the hippie mob. - Noah David Simon
this is sweet, the more I play w/it the better it gets! Sync so much to this (flickr, g reader, utube ect.) and I can even send this to twitter as a reply. It's sick, almost feel bad for twitter. - Gaspare
it's not the url shorteners fault - the sites go down due to traffic but the timeout on the browser's side looks as if it was caused by the short link. - thomas marban
Actually, the problem has been with URL.IM every time I have had the issue. Even going straight to URL.IM's site produced the same timeouts when it happened. - cmiper
