Thanks for making this tool. Trying it out now... - Czar

I wonder how many people have Scobleizer in the number 1 place? - Brian Sullivan

Brian, if many of your friends are also following you, you should be at number one. - Benedikt Koehler

Very cool stuff. Thanks for sharing! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Unfortunately, for users with many contacts the script suddenly exits without warning. Have to debug this first. - Benedikt Koehler

Cool idea, but the reciprocal count is misleading. For me, it says "Hi, itafroma! Your 158 friends (149 reciprocal) connect you to 39471 Friendfeed users." However, this isn't true. 155 people reciprocate the subscription; I believe you're considering private subscribers as non-reciprocal, as I am subscribed to 6 private feeds. - Mark Trapp

@Mark: True. I cannot access private subscribers, so there not counted. To include them I would have to use your FF API key. - Benedikt Koehler

BTW I found the bug. Now it's quite fast and even works for people like @loic or @techcrunch ;-) - Benedikt Koehler

I've been playing around with reciprocal counts today, and I think you actually need the private feed's remote key to get that information. I think it's fine, but maybe it could be worded better? "Your 158 friends (149 public + reciprocal, 6 private)" or some such. I ran your tool earlier and was like "When did all these people unsubscribe from me?" - Mark Trapp

Also, the connection number keeps changing. I'm now down to 9,305 connections, from 39,471. Was the high number related to the bug? - Mark Trapp

Mark, I will change the wording. But: because I don't have access to the private contacts, I do not know whether they have subscribed to you. There are three types of contacts: public+reciprocal, public+unidirectional, private+reciprocal, private+unidirectional. Only FF can distinguish the last two. Or is there something I'm missing? - Benedikt Koehler

No, that's correct. I'm just saying that the reciprocal count you give could be qualified, is all. Like you said, you can know, for sure, who is reciprocating if they are public, but you can't make a claim either way if they are private (the API does inform that it's private, but doesn't provide the profile). The way it's worded currently seems to imply that it's definitely only N people reciprocating, regardless of privacy settings. - Mark Trapp

Mine here - http://skitch.com/toddjor... Scoble is not #1...but he's not far behind. :) - Todd Jordan

I am connected to 18,227 users, surprised Louis was @9. Like many of you Robert was #1. - Ruth Ferguson

Here's my FFSixDegrees chart http://friendfeed.com/e... Robert Scoble is #1. Connected to 21,007 users (not including 20-40 private feeds). - Mitchell Tsai

Was asking about something like this just this morning (in connection with a news story about six degrees of separation) - I've got 36 Friends, through whom I'm connected to 7,469 FF users. Gosh - does this mean my humble FF posts float past all those users? - Bob Kingsley

Bob, that's it. If they do not have disabled foaf-messages, every one of your FF posts is related to 7469 users around here. That's what I like about networking and what is different from mass media: In this world 36 friends can mean an audience of 7000. On television 36 viewers are just that: 36 viewers. - Benedikt Koehler

"91 friends (32 public and reciprocal) connect you to 13019 Friendfeed users." - Daniel Schildt

Just checked it out...but I think my list will be very similar to everyone else's list: Scoble, Louis Gray, etc. - Eric Florenzano

Benedikt, thank you - although I've been surfing around on the net since its early days, this wider landscape of social networking is quite new to me and its potential has only just started to become clear. To employ an over-used word: AWESOME! No wonder I'm so addicted to it :) - Bob Kingsley

Now it's ready for Scoble http://metaroll.com/ffsixde... - Benedikt Koehler

Added a bit of eyecandy showing the relation between direct contacts and indirect contacts. - Benedikt Koehler

eyecandy FTW!! yes!! - Susan Beebe

here's the list of 6 degees.... add yours! http://friendfeed.com/e... - Susan Beebe

i am a sucker for such tools. :) - Nicole Simon