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Hmmm, my Friendfeed isn't updating today. No blog post. No tweets. Anyone else noticing this?
Still not working today....:(
- Mary-Lynn
Wow. Just manually tried to refresh Twitter as per help center instructions. Still nothing. Next suggestion was to remove my Twitter account and add it back in again. I did so without removing imports, but when trying to add my twitter account back in, I get the following message "We could not find the given account". I've submitted a ticket. This is frustrating.
- Mary-Lynn
I just got Twitter back on FF - it didn't work at first but I tried a few times and it finally took my account. YEAH!!!!
- Mary-Lynn
FriendFeed should be faster again. We were had some network issues which caused a lot of slowness this past week, but I think it's fixed now. Let me know if you are still encountering any extreme slowness.
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Will this mean I'll be able to upload pictures again? EDIT This does not mean I can upload photos now.
- Admiral Anika
Thanks for the update Paul! ;)
- AJ Batac
Mainly just had problems with email posting and the bookmarklet. The rest seemed fairly okay.
- Jason Huebel
I've been told that I'm extremely slow much of the time, but I don't think that's what you meant. Thanks for taking care of the issue, Paul.
- Jim Is Not Smart
Does seem very zippy, thanks team!
- Stephen Mack
Time to time, it's slow. Overall fast (again), however.
- Ozkan Altuner
I think the issues were directly related to Cristo's 11 MB PDF upload.
- Louis Gray
Thank you, Paul!
- Holly Rae
it looks faster now. thanks
- Hakan İyice
I still see Twitter updates coming in here 10 -15 minutes later
- Jorge Escobar
Thanks Paul. Much better.
- Roberto Bonini
Im experiencing extreme slowness ,,,, but then again , Im 53
- johnpiercy
nice also to know your not Boarding up the Windows
- johnpiercy
It did seem a little faster this afternoon.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
The Twitter issue is a separate problem Jorge -- our realtime feed from them is gone, but we hope to get it restored soon.
- Paul Buchheit
The Twitter feed went entirely???? o_O
- Roberto Bonini
It would be great if you could speed up importing of Twitter feeds. The slowness has been an issue for me lately.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Got it, Paul. Thanks!
- Jorge Escobar
Nice to know that there is indeed a problem with Twitter importing being slow, and I'm not just going crazy.
- Tyson Key
Awesome news!
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Sweet
- Josh Haley
Meanwhile, Dad's kids with his new wife get what kind of toys?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, FriendFeed users have no reason to complain about our toys. And even if we did, bitterness doesn't help.
- Bruce Lewis
FriendFeed is dying for me. In fact. it's just about gone. I use it as a control room and discussion space for my Twitter feed, and a searchable archive. Discussion threads are down about 80 percent. "Likes" are off about 90 percent. There's no real time feed in from Twitter any more. Sad.
- Jay Rosen
Agreed, Jay. My personal life is in a bit of an upheaval right now, which hasn't helped, but the FB acquisition took the wind out of the sails for me. It feels like there's no future, or worse, a future wired up to the "friending" criteria of my Facebook account. I use the services COMPLETELY differently, however. Inbound updates continue, since they're automatic, but this is the first comment I've posted in weeks. Sad, indeed.
- Ken Kennedy
+1 Jay
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I am using Twitter and FB more and more lately. On the plus side, it's strengthening some real world connections. I'm missing out on the cool new stuff but I think I had gone overboard on that front.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I like FriendFeed, but I happen to find myself using Twitter and IRC more as of late. I guess I've probably just burnt myself and others out, given that I don't seem to have much in the way of compelling content and commentary these days, and that I just don't feel as motivated as I'd like to. :(
- Tyson Key
Thanks
- zizukabi
Thanks for the info and the update.
- giuseppe c. | markgreene
Still seems to be some slowness. The Innovation Management Room (er...Group) hasn't updated for several hours: http://friendfeed.com/innovat...
- Hutch Carpenter
Thanks for throwing some love over to FF :)
- Susan Beebe
Is there currently an issue with posting from FF to update Facebook -or is Facebook broken after the re-design ? i dont get anything posted to FB anymore which worked fine before yd
- Del_
Hi Paul, I know it has been a while since this post. But over the last 48 hours my Twitter updates have quit showing up in FF. I tried manually refreshing. Then I removed the account so I could just add it back in. When trying to do that I get the following message: "We could not find the given account" I haven't changed anything. Any thoughts on why this is happening? I haven't had any trouble until now. Thanks.
- Mary-Lynn
My Twitter feed is coming into FF much faster now - thanks! *Edit - Blog feed, too!
- Kurt Starnes
Losers Put Money First - http://biggsuccess.com/2009...
Do you remember the game show Match Game? In this podcast,we recreate it. Fun :)
- Mary-Lynn
SEO is Dead! Everyone Panic!! - http://www.inetseo.co.uk/blog...
Nice practical article about SEO, Social Media and Search.
- Mary-Lynn
#Podcasters: What's the more important link to you: the link to your website or the link to your show on iTunes?
iTunes show link.
- mtlb
Our website. You can easily find our iTunes show link there. #Podcasters
- Mary-Lynn
Website with a clearly displayed link to itunes
- TheDiva Rockin
Yeapp, agree with Mary-Lynn and TheDiva - the website, with a clearly visible link to subscribe.
- Alex Luft
Just started seeing the retweet beta on some Twitter accounts today. Who else has got it? http://blog.twitter.com/2009...
I have had it for a couple of weeks now and I love it.
- Jae Burnham
It has appeared in my account and it is definitely useful when the message you want to retweet is several tweets down the page.
- TrafficBug
The feedback I'm getting is: 1. Don't know how to use lists. 2. Clients don't support them yet. 3. Too busy building their own to subscribe.
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Add me to all three points
- Kirill Bolgarov
I set up a couple lists on Twitter, subscribed to a few more but mostly Tweetdeck doesn't support lists either making or checking or subscribing
- WarLord
The overwhelming majority of lists have more people in them than subscribers.
- Louis Gray
I'm using lists as more of an endorsement than anything - I just don't use the Twitter UI enough to use the lists for reading data. I also don't read every single post in my stream. That's what Facebook is for.
- Jesse Stay
I use my own lists - it was a sorely needed feature
- Michael Slattery
from iPhone
Also subscribed to one of Robert's - congrats btw on becoming the king of lists
- Michael Slattery
from iPhone
@scobleizer Robert, you are dead on! FYI @Peoplebrowsr already supports lists (read-only, I think).
- Alexandros Georgiadis
I use my lists as filters. Their primary use is for me. Others may find them useful, but that wasn't my purpose in assembling them.
- empireofno
from FreshFeed
I'm trying to slowly build lists. Its hard to find the time. I wish Twitter would let me search within my friends for keywords to help make the process faster.
- Mary-Lynn
When I see someone write something interesting I add them to a list, simpels :D
- Asgeir
I will subscribe to lists when they become more sophisticated and complete; that is, ones that are built around specific organizations (all off Google's official Twitter accounts, for example) or based on user statistics (Favstar is off to a good start with that). Otherwise, lists are just subjective categories that I can create best for myself.
- Cloud
I'm just a little confused about lists. What benefit is there in actually following a list? Why can't I say bookmark one of Robert's lists and visit it directly? Seems to give me the same information.
- Pavan
Lists are no different than the rest of Twitter - not without it's issues and used however you want to use it. I use them to track groups of friends, colleagues, categories. Some use them to unclutter their main stream. Use them however you want.
- Damien Basile
Pavan: I think following a list will pay benefits in the future. Right now it just adds a link to that list on your home page.
- Robert Scoble
I see many people have made lists and added me. I am not sure yet how i want to use them.. I have subscribed back about 22 out of 72+ lists that have followed me since I felt they would be interesting to follow. One day I will make my own! Want to be on it? lol
- Amy Flynn
Too much info..twitter need to be simpler, faster, lighter.
- N.G. Gordon - RadarSync
Robert, if I could subscribe to someone's curated list and then further edit my copy, now THAT would be powerful (think Yahoo! Pipes). Also, merging lists or breaking ones down into sub-categories could be interesting.
- Cloud
I like @audioClouds ideas. A way to it would be to create private copies of public lists and take it from there. We also need an acceptable UI to manage lists
- Alexandros Georgiadis
Hi guys, just to let everyone know. This group is now officially called Appetite to match up with a new channel we've launched at The Next Web by the same name (http://thenextweb.com/appetite). Hope you can learn to love it! :)
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How to Write Your Own Facebook App in 5 Minutes - http://www.labnol.org/interne...
@labnol this looks like a fun thing to try on a rainy Saturday :)
- Mary-Lynn
POLL: Do You Still Use a Dictionary? - http://mashable.com/2009...
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Dictionary will not become obsolete as long as there r people speaking 2nd tongue.
- polou/indigo_bow
from Bookmarklet
In a column today, the Wall Street Journal’s Julia Angwin says yes, and Google (Google) is to blame.
- polou/indigo_bow
Of course, but my dictionaries are built into my Kindle and my browser now...
- Joel Bennett
Google is good for seeing the meaning of "recursion"
- Mac64
Does dictionary.com count?
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I think so Mathew
- polou/indigo_bow
I have a dictionary
- Mary-Lynn
Urban Dictionary
- John Speck
I use the Define function on many search engines.
- Jim Lavin
I do all the time. In my OS, I can point at any word and the system will tell me what it means from the local dictionary. Otherwise, I use spotlight to define it for me.
- Dustin Sallings
Turning Social Media Into Sociable Media - http://webworkerdaily.com/2009...
From Web Worker Daily. Good practical social media advice.
- Mary-Lynn
Yeah @KNAjit I don't get the unfollowing fuss either. Just comment on FriendFeed here, for instance, to get me to follow you:
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I will follow you on FriendFeed. Why here? Because I can put people into lists. On Twitter I don't have that ability. What's wacked is I actually read a lot more people's stuff on FriendFeed than I ever did on Twitter. I think the real fuss is due to those jerks who did autofollowing schemes to help people get lots of followers artificially. That and SEO types who only are in it for the game of getting more followers and links.
- Robert Scoble
I got my first official "Unfollowing you for not following back" @ reply today... Weird people, especially if you try to sell things - which the person who send me that is trying.
- Holger Eilhard
Yeah, like this guy: http://twitter.com/webaddict
- Robert Scoble
hahaha, it's all rather hilarious really. No one else I know in the world, in person, cares about any of this junk tho :(
- Mark
You know, some people consider "following" as an active form of politeness : fail, they didn't get the networking concept at all. Some other don't get the concept of "spring cleaning" either. So, I can understand that some people don't understand the concept of "social network spring cleaning"...
- Zackatoustra
Yeah, I know. Here's his Tweet: http://twitter.com/webaddi... -- he claims I'm gaming my way to more followers (he's autofollowing too, so isn't that like the kettle calling the pot black?) Plus he's an SEO expert.
- Robert Scoble
In my case it was http://twitter.com/network...
- Holger Eilhard
Holger: yeah, it's amazing that people think that's cool. If those folks ever move over here to FriendFeed then I'll know it's time to move on.
- Robert Scoble
Some expert, his website was last updated with a social media post in May
- Mark
It's getting to the point one has to go for quality over on Twitter, not quantity, now.
- George Hall (Australia)
I cut myself back to 280 I follow and 320 followers.
- George Hall (Australia)
There must be a social media expert School around here someplace.
- Mark
And then there's all this "Pay us for followers" thing going on... In various ways, either by being featured on a "big" website or - the really stupid way - by being followed by some bots, which will be deleted sooner or later...
- Holger Eilhard
I did the unfollow thing once on Twitter because I couldn't read all the noise, then, I added a bunch of people back because I convinced myself that I shouldn't read all the noise. Now, I'm leaning towards a lean following list again. Thanks for the boost.
- Adam
Well, @JeffreyHayzlett is one person who still thinks following back is a polite thing to do.
- K N Ajit Narayan
Interesting, not a single new FriendFeed user has joined this comment area. I'm already following everyone who has commented here. So, I guess the migration is already complete.
- Robert Scoble
Hmmm - its this type of effort to evade the bots that makes me things may all break down into a soup of failure. Why can't the follow system only actually *follow* someone if there's a two-conversation at least once?
- Justin Howard
K N: the thing is I know that person is NOT reading your Tweets. there's no way he can, especially if he's a busy executive.
- Robert Scoble
Well Sir Robert of Scoble, you did say a while back Friendfeed growth has stagnated but all other social sites are growing exponentially :(
- Mark
Mark: that is true, but Facebook is doing it by getting normal people to join up. Twitter is doing it because of celebrities. FriendFeed's growth will be slower and more organic.
- Robert Scoble
Mark...don't worry, I think Friendfeed could still catch up. Especially if people are finding Twitter needs too much spring-cleaning too often.
- George Hall (Australia)
Robert: What's the difference for you with following x thousand people on FF but not on Twitter? Are you using the Hide feature much and/or do you use many lists? Sorry, if this has been asked over and over.
- Holger Eilhard
George: that's true. If FriendFeed hits the right UI they could really take off well.
- Robert Scoble
Holger: I use lists. I need to do a video explaining my new methodology. But generally the smaller lists are more useful. Same on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
well they have plenty of smart people working at FF
- Mark
If (when) twitter releases Group support, you will have to go back and start all over again rob :D
- Mark
Robert: I don't think FF is that far away now from hitting its critical mass to take-off. That spammer situation on Twitter is starting to make it less joyful to use.
- George Hall (Australia)
Mark: nope, I'll be in a great position! My first group is already complete. :-)
- Robert Scoble
God those spammers are annoying, I was reporting them to @Spam from the public timeline yesterday. Twitter seems to act on @Spam very quickly
- Mark
Robert: The UI is a major problem with FF. I still don't feel like using it. Only @Scobleizer brings me back to FF :(
- K N Ajit Narayan
Heck, if the situation on Twitter is such I can safely trim/block around 400-500 people, it means it isn't really that valuable in the long term.
- George Hall (Australia)
Mark: yeah, spam noise in search really makes things suck. In FriendFeed you can search by groups. That is so freaking cool.
- Robert Scoble
K N: have you tried a different theme yet: http://friendfeed.com/setting... I use Grasslands and like it better.
- Robert Scoble
I'm also noting that real and talkative/friendly NEW followers on Twiter are getting fewer and far between.
- George Hall (Australia)
George I've noticed that new users are hard to get here too.
- Robert Scoble
But at least the subscibers here are great to talk with.
- George Hall (Australia)
Yup, agreed! The community here is a lot more fun.
- Robert Scoble
was this true Rob? http://ff.im/698cg
- Mark
Robert: Hmm, Grasslands looks better. Will give FF another chance.
- K N Ajit Narayan
There is something about destroytwitter.com client that has me not use FriendFeed more though... I really like a skinny window sitting on the desktop that i can glance at occasionally :) re the unfollow thing - I get lots of randoms following me that I'm not going to follow back - don't interest me
- Nicholas Orr
In terms of enjoyable experience, I think I've enjoyed this past week here on Friendfeed a bit better than I enjoyed the Twitter experience in the same period. The gloss is really starting to come off Twitter itself, although a lot of my social media friends are there.
- George Hall (Australia)
Why would you want someone who would not be able to see your posts to follow you? Numbers?
- Anton Tanderup
Mark, yeah, that was true, a couple of times.
- Robert Scoble
Robert - I think you do such a great job about discussion the "new tech" and trends and now trying to bring the tech stuff to small business. I thought you followed so many people becasue they could lead you to something new stuff you have not seen or ware of. What has changed? do you have new sources that can keep you updated? I assume as you said before FF is enough for that ..right? Joao/Techfuga
- TechFuga
I'll venture a guess Twitter's own spammer purge showed us all something about the follower lists we hadn't noticed before.
- George Hall (Australia)
Anton: why wouldn't a follower be able to see you? I don't get that.
- Robert Scoble
I always thought it was great that you followed me, but I don't think I offer that much in the way of "value." :-) So I'm not put out.... Seriously.
- Joanmarie
Joanmarie: I follow you here already.
- Robert Scoble
One other thing: you should get a return on your investment/time..I hope you already do with RackSpace :). By the way we changed all our hosting architecture to Cloud at RackSpace thanks to you and thanks to me following you here in FF. we are very very happy ...please tell that to your boss at RackSpace....Joao/Techfuga
- TechFuga
Robert: If he's following 100k people :)
- Anton Tanderup
Robert - This is what I was getting at yesterday; even though you might not follow me on Twitter, I know you'll see - and respond to, when appropriate - any comments I make here on FF, so I'm not "missing out" by you not following me.
- Andrew Terry
I always wondered how you made sense of a 10k+ person stream, Robert.
- Tech Introvert
Tech: big screens and FriendFeed. That took most of my attention over past 18 months. Now I saw that Twitter really was a chore and wasn't fun because of all the spam. Now it's a lot nicer.
- Robert Scoble
I like to talk to real people not spam bots
- Randy Allen Bishop
I get so much more information from friendfeed, and I follow significantly less people.
- Jordan Patterson
Lists are very powerful in lieu of better information tagging tools. Search is even stronger but requires me manually poking around
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
You finaly got me to sign up - I resisted this long. In my head I guess i was getting my head round twitter, last thing I needed was to get my head round twitter 2.0 aswell.. but it ocured to me, the worst case, is its like a client for twitter, and a post you did a few days ago, sugested, maybe using twitter as a client for FF.. Anyway, can't hurt to have a go, can it!
- Nathan Vingoe
I feel the same as Joanmarie. I'm not likely to be the one to break new tech news, so don't know that my tweets contribute much value to Robert's stream. Pretty sure I can just @scobleizer if I really feel like I'm on to something. I constantly try to keep my follows lean, and spend way too much time checking out new followers who I have no idea why they follow me.
- motownmutt
I don't see much spam at all on Twitter, but that may be because I follow maybe 1 person for every 30 or so that follow me (300:9000). I think spam is the result of "courtesy" following if someone follows you - in other words, you cause your own spam.
- Trent Hamm
Not everybody who is involved with SEO is just using Twitter for followers. Some are professional online marketers with an interest in tech.
- Paul M Evans
from iPhone
I keep playing Sam Jackson from Pulp Fiction in my head, "Say SEO (or Social Media Expert) one more time mutha-******"!
- Shaun Hess
thanks for the follow robert .. hope you and the family are doing well , greetings from canada
- johnpiercy
Hey robert. How is the experiment working out??????
- Roberto Bonini
I posted this two days ago (But I'm not Scoble so very few saw): So if you follow someone on Friendfeed, should you unfollow them on Twitter? Why not?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
scobleizer has been following me here on ff ever since i started participating... i was very flattered, until i learned that he just followed everyone
- Chris Heath
Appreciate Scoble's embrace of innovative & effective ways to communicate, including video, which we're all about. We've been kind of obsessing over your work lately on http://www.market7.com/blog and hope we'll have opportunity to meet again soon (last time was at Salt Lick in Austin) -- next time hopefully over our web service for better video production instead of an awesome plate of ribs
- Market7
I really don't see Twitter and FriendFeed as having the same uses. I use twitter to communicate with my real life friends, for the most part. FF is more about conversations on things that interest me. Sure, some of my RLFriends are here, and I follow them, but that's not the primary use I get from FF.
- Otto
Looking forward to joining the conversation here too...
- Brian Baumley
Im gonna use the Screen Door Analogy ,, I recently put the Screendoor on my Twitter "the lock on my account " it allows me to control all the bugs coming in and I still get all the fresh air and the same view
- johnpiercy
The ability to put people on lists here on Friendfeed makes it very easy to use it for real friends and as a way to keep up with other interesting people and thus seems to me that it's just a matter of time before it replaces twitter if people really use that feature.
- russellcoleman
I think Samuel is the first person I've seen that uses Twitter as a real life friend system (instead of Facebook) and FriendFeed as the wide open conversation tool. Usually I see Friendfeeders were/are wide open Twitter users as well (the gateway drug). I'm sure there are more using the tools that way, I just find that perspective interesting.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
FF is great for those who like to share visually as well as converse ,, Twitter is the quick water cooler chat , FF is the dinner time chat
- johnpiercy
I think the problem for some people is that they want a higher number of followers and so may not want to unfollow people—even if they are just spammers. Personally I'd rather have a smaller network of people following me who are actually interested in what I post on Twitter. (And who actually read their Twitter messages at least once in a while.)
- David Rondeau
Hi Robert! I follow you on twitter and FF. I like to keep up with you since I'm an avid social media user and new media content producer. @marylynn3 here & on Twitter.
- Mary-Lynn
You better be following me, is all I can say :-) Course, I'm on Friend Feed too.
- Jay Rosen
Robert, I continue to be amazed at how you do what you do, across what, 20 different social media channels? When do you sleep exactly? Would be great if you could add me to your follow list, thanks
- Scott Booher
If someone follows me on Twitter, I read every profile, the stream, their profile/blog link, and then decide. It does take time, (& I follow a bunch), but worth it to me. I like to read what great minds are thinking. On Twitter however, the increase in Spammers has really driven me to look for better ways to engage. I hate housecleaning.
- Karen Masullo
On Twitter I usually first follow lots of people and sort them out later - tweet by tweet. I also follow more than 2k people on FriendFeed, and it's fun! If it gets to much for you: The group function will help. Greets from Germany! :-)
- Kolja
I really only read anything on FF. I go follow people on Twitter and then update from FF. That's the extent of my twitter interactions. I have one problem though: you can't insert a line break on these comments, so I inadvertently post before I'm finished. Btw, I don't mind if you don't follow me since I'm a bit boring. Your posts, on the other hand, are like mini conversations; It's awesome!
- Californian
Mark Nielsen: I use Facebook as a real life friend system too. Realistically, I think of Twitter much more in the way I think of TXT messaging. Because that's obviously the underlying design principle there: Broadcast SMS Messages. So, on that level, I tend to only want to receive the text messages of people I know and of services I use. This limits who I follow to those that I want to have two-way conversations with, which tends to be people I know IRL.
- Otto
Makes sense.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
You know, I haven't even checked to see if you follow me anymore or not. I think people will just get over themselves and make social media work in whatever way is best for them. I'm trimming out the SEO junk from my time line, but I find value in following real people on Twitter be it 100 or 600. It's not fair to call people 'noise', just trim out the people you're not interested in keeping up with and be done with it. Right?
- Mike Lewis
If someone follows me, I look at this as an opportunity to see what they write about (be it on Twitter or Friendfeed). If they are funny or interesting, I follow back. But if they don't continue to be interesting or funny, I unfollow. There's just too much information and I want to absorb some of it - and not waste time or brain cells on the uninteresting (or unfunny).
- amygeek
I agree Robert. I tend to read much more of the posts and comments out there in FF than I ever did/do/would on Twitter. I love Twitter's simplicity, but it's a bit too simple sometimes--mostly on the sharing side of the thing. The Like and Comment features are my faves for both FF and Facebook.
- Hans Eisenman
"If those folks ever move over here to FriendFeed then I'll know it's time to move on" LOL :) I god a kick out of that one. :)
- Frode Stenstrøm
Cyber-sixty-niners are just a quite popular way to proclaim brain amputation. Reminds me of a self-sucking Ron Jeremy ... I mean, can't for the sake of common sense in social media those attention whores leave the InterWeb alone? Doh!
- Sebastian
That idea that Twitter would replace RSS last what? A month? I have never seen such an overrated tool/website/platform. ;P (Not that I don't use it, mind you, hehe.)
- Marcos
Note what could be the next competitive frontier for Google vs Apple and Google vs Microsoft for mobility and search in The Genome Based Economy.Jack M. Germain in TechNewsWorld, http://www.technewsworld.com/story... on the stunning development that Genomics moves to PDAs, at the very moment that Google clashes with Apple on mobiles, and Google and Microsoft confront each other...
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- Suzanne Matick
I'm thinking that I might have to start giving my FriendFeed account much more attention. On Twitter I have 2 orders of magnitude less followers than you Robert, but even for me the spam is starting to get a bit ridiculous. It does seem to be becoming a haven for spammers & scammers and not the networking place that I really enjoyed for quite a while. If Twitter doesn't want to die before it reaches maturity, it really needs to find a way to control spam & find a way to build community in new ways.
- David van Sunder
<chuckles> scobleizer does a mass unfollow and it generates some decent discussion on the negatives of twitter. Its almost fun watching the people who follow you promptly unfollow you a week later because you didnt follow back.. for about a week. I keep saying it would be good to add a meta layer to twitter (or maybe friendfeed would do it?) that allows for some context or grouping. Not everyone wants to see all of someone's tweets.
- Riaz Kanani
Well I'll give you this Robert, at least you do still "listen" and respond. :P First of all, I am not calling the kettle black because my point was that due to you autofollowing everyone & then unfollowing them all that was gaming the system. Just as you didn't have time to follow every single person following you, I don't either. Of course I auto follow. I don't see anything wrong with...
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- Joel Mackey
Joel: if I am gaming explain how I lost 7,000 in one day.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I am so glad I am a nurse and I earn an honest living doing something important. I would be ashamed if I "earned" my living helping people get higher ranked on google.
- Mark
I hear you loud and clear Robert. I'm not saying you aren't taking a major hit & will probably continue to see that come your way for a few days. I see your loss & a majority of it is probably autounfollows, LOL, ah the cycle of automation. Listen Robert, I'm really not taking a shot at you, just voicing my opinion & feelings that due to you participating in autofollow for a very long...
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- Joel Mackey
Mark: I'll respond to you once because you seem to think you have a grasp on who I am. I'd like to set you straight real quick before you get that good feeling inside of you thinking you are making any sense or good points at all. Just because I can do SEO does not mean that is what I do for a living. I have a programming degree & do a ridiculous number of things. Just because I'm not...
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- Joel Mackey
sorry for being a dick, had a bad day xx
- Mark
Mark: Sweet. No problem. You're always entitled to your opinion. Hope your day gets better. Nurses deserve to be paid better & get more respect. You've got mine but I also admire that you apologized. That's rare in this world. :P Take care buddy.
- Joel Mackey
This is a long post so I need to check I get it, "gaming googles SEO gaming isnt gaming on the autofollow gaming game of Friendfeed gaming twitter game?
- Robert Higgins
Joel: I disagree. I had a very large following before I even turned on autofollow. And I don't have autofollow turned on here and I have a very large following. I never got into using TweetDeck for groups. If anything I use FriendFeed for that. Anyway, your point that autofollowing increasing followers is right, but as I have demonstrated once you unfollow all those people go away. They...
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- Robert Scoble
I've ALWAYS said who you follow is more important than who is following you. Now I'm putting that into practice even more. If you're following me just to have me follow you back you're following me for the wrong reason.
- Robert Scoble
It really doesn't matter what social network you using there are going to be a group that you connect and interact with regularly and the rest of your following. My reach is farther than what I see everyday, then again maybe I have just fallen for the hype.
- Dawn Pigoni
Agreed, never follow just for the follow back. As for the inability to put people on lists on Twitter, there are twitter clients that work just as well.
- Brian Ellis
Robert's right. I'm almost a fanatic about that.
- Dennis Jernberg
I don't see it as necessary to follow someone both on Twitter and Friendfeed. Although I generally like to catch what you have to say, Robert , so I follow you on both services.
- Martha
One I use is Twibes. I never liked that Twitter itself doesn't have a groups function.
- Dennis Jernberg
I use T-Deck. I have multiple accounts and T-Deck makes it very easy to control them.
- Brian Ellis
Let's be Twitter buddies again, mmk? :)
- Joshua M
Don't follow me, my twitter feed is really dull.
- Alex Scrivener
Robert: You said, "I never got into using TweetDeck for groups." I specifically used to refer people to your videos demonstrating TweetDeck and how it enables you to follow so many people. I laughed when I saw them because it allowed me to not have to explain it & just send them your way. So at one point you were evangelizing the use of TweetDeck for Groups & filtering all of the people...
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- Joel Mackey
I've made my "lists" in PeopleBrowsr, so for me Twitter and FriendFeed works the same when it comes to filtering the noise.
- Svartling
Svartling: I'm so heavily dependent on Peoplebrowsr now that Twitter's almost unusable without it. I like Friendfeed a lot. just still figuring out how to work it into my daily flow.
- Kevin Arth
I didn't read any of this but i was here
- Doubledown_inSL
I haven't been using FF much, but this conversation is giving me a reason to take a second look at FF. I can not keep up with the spam. I do enjoy Twitter for the conversation, but not to keep up with a lot of people. I miss the interesting tweets in the mass of spam and porn.
- Michele McGraw
from iPhone
I feek the same way, Michele. What I am uncertain about is whether I can use FriendFeed to organize my Twitter friends right out of the gate or do those whom I wish to follow using FF have to using FF as well? I just haven't quite had the time to explore it. If it's the latter it would be another app I would have to get friends to use and that would probably decrease the # of actual...
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- Hans Eisenman
from email
I use FriendFeed as kind of a 'best of the best' of Twitter. Where I can really read and digest what's going on. Brilliant blog post, btw.
- Thor
Loved your blog post. Still trying to figure out how to make the most of FriendFeed, but following you is probably a good start.
- Ed
I personally find FriendFeed to be more pleasing because of the ease in following threaded conversations. But I have been using TweetDeck and it allows me to place tweeps in groups/columns, similar to FF groups, so I can parse out things I WANT to see. However, I was following anyone who followed me, and now I have a lot of spam and market/MLM posts that I need to sift through... annoying. I will be going on an unfollow twitter spree once it's back up and stable from the DoS attacks.
- Timothy Federwitz
Gonna have to get that Peoplebrowsr from the sound of it.
- Hans Eisenman
from email
Been trying to login to Peoplebrowsr with my Twitter ID and it's telling me wrong pw, and yet I can log in to Twitter with same pw. Wonder if it's at all related to the DOS attack Twitter was having.
- Hans Eisenman
It always takes some effort to shift a dynamic. I appreciate you rethinking your social networking preferences publicly, it's given me a lot to think about.
- Jo Golden PhD
hopefully i didn't get lost in the "twitter-shed"...I totally support what you did
- Crackle
Thank you for the insightful post Robert. Great points to your discussion on WHY you did it. We can all learn.
- Matthew
How to Find Your Hidden Talent - http://www.skelliewag.org/how-to-...
Reading:
- Mary-Lynn
How a simple tweet made an HVAC company $700 - http://www.mickmelseo.com/200904...
A great example of how social media helped a customer AND a company.
- Mary-Lynn
16 Boring but Important Ways to Make Your Business More Social - http://veryofficialblog.com/2009...
@ShannonPaul I really enjoyed reading this:
- Mary-Lynn
From Twitter to Star Trek - Out of this Word Communication - http://biggsuccess.com/2009...
Well, I rarely do this, but the title of our post today has a typo! It's supposed to say "Out of this WORLD Communication". Dag nab it!
- Mary-Lynn
Free Food and Fun with Friends - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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So this is my first attempt ever at editing/creating video by animating our audio podcast. Audio editing/production is my specialty...but video is a whole new game for me. Gotta start somewhere and play around to learn, right? I used Windows Movie Maker for this.
- Mary-Lynn
Have you played atari today? - http://nathenmckenzie.info/
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love playing my atari
- (jeff)isageek
Space Invaders was my favorite
- Mary-Lynn
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Not exactly a stroll through the Louvre, but pretty darned interesting!
- Brad Shorr
Really cool!
- Mary-Lynn
Nicely done Stephen!
- Phil Gerbyshak
10 Things to Be Clear About Before You Start a Company - ReadWriteStart - http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwri...
Great article! Thanks for sharing.
- Mary-Lynn
I just can't seem to get my facebook rss feed into friendfeed. I've followed the directions FF provided, "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" is checked in my privacy settings, yet the feed link does not appear in my Facebook Mini-Feed Status Stories page. I'm just not sure what else to do. Any suggestions?
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Your answer, can be found here - http://ff.im/2AFIO. I suggest you dig a bit or do a search just in case someone has already asked that question.
- Matt Ruiz
Paul Buchheit (co-founder of FF) mentioned that indeed Facebook took away discoverability of the Facebook RSS feed in question (which I find quite frustrating, and a shame on Facebook's part). Read this thread: http://friendfeed.com/paul...
- Micah Wittman
it's true - i spent a lot of time following the Help instructions - to no avail
- Don Bonaddio
Thanks for all of the suggestions and links to discussions on this!
- Mary-Lynn
50 Social Sites That Every Business Needs a Presence on - Inside CRM - http://www.insidecrm.com/feature...
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A great list of social media sites for businesses to pump up their online presence. - Mary-Lynn
- Mary-Lynn
Cellphones may spread superbugs in hospitals: study - http://www.breitbart.com/article...
We need sanitary wipes for our phones!
- Mary-Lynn
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Find the right benefit and raise your price. - http://themarketingspot.blogspot.com/2008...
You can raise prices in a down economy. Great post from @themarketingguy
- Mary-Lynn
Holiday’s Sales Down? Try These Two Tips. - http://businessonthemound.com/2008...
Good tips from @pitchyourbiz to bring in some business.
- Mary-Lynn
Reading: The cocktail party problem explained. - http://www.chicagotribune.com/feature...
"cocktail party problem"
- Mary-Lynn
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Own a mini Facebook using Google’s Friend Connect - http://www.guruofsales.com/general...
How to install friend connect & a link to a video tutorial. Anyone using this on their site? How is it?
- Mary-Lynn
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