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Louis Gray

TweetDeck Promises to Add Twitter Lists Support Soon - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...

October 30 from louisgray.com - Comment - Like - Share

Venkk Sastry, Bonnie Foster, Head Ov Metal and 17 other people liked this

What about Seesmic? - Jorge Escobar

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Yes this would be awesome... #tweetdeck - Yann Ropars

I assume Loic will provide updates soon, but I can't speak for him. - Louis Gray

But you are on a speed dial basis with him, aren't ya? ;) - Jorge Escobar

I am on a speed-DM basis with him. :) - Louis Gray

Ok, so get his point of view as well for this post. Do some journalism for once! LOL j/k - Jorge Escobar

Isn't tweetdeck supposed to sync with two computers if you have it installed and logged on? Mine doesn't do that w/home and work computers. - Amani

Jorge, I updated the post to reflect that Loic has promised list support in Seesmic. - Louis Gray

Thank you, I'll send you the wire tonight ;) - Jorge Escobar

So does SocialToo :-) - Jesse Stay

I want these in my tweetie iphone app and hopefully they'll be in the new tweetie desktop version - Robert DeBord

Tweetdeck to Twitter list sync would be great - Mo Kargas

I wonder why Loic only mentions update for Seesmic Desktop, not Seesmic Web. Come to think of it, I wonder what Loic's plans are with the two. It seems like they almost go to different directions (some features are unique to each other) - Andre P. Siregar

Cool, anybody knows when twitter add GPS integration? - Francisco Espinoza from FreshFeed

It will be interesting to see if tweetdeck is able to transparently migrate their existing groups to twitter lists. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Evan Williams

Working on some product ideas I'm very excited about.

November 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Jérôme Flipo, Clare Dibble, Stephan Osmont and 9 other people liked this

"Working on some product ideas I'm not that excited about." - Jim Norris

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Working on some product ideas with Ana. Not really enjoying myself. - Jim Norris

lol, jim. - Cristo

Cristo++ - Ruchira S. Datta

@Jim: +42 - AJ Kohn

Michelle Jones

Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » diy project: kate’s notebook lunchbag - http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009...

September 9 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Melissa, Jeannette Høvring, © D/\\/IIID ℠ ® and 3 other people liked this

I need someone who can sew to make this for me because it is awesome. - Michelle Jones from Bookmarklet

Lora Lufark

Fwd: What's My Pass? The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time - http://www.whatsmypass.com/the-top... (via http://friendfeed.com/iankenn...)

August 19 - Comment - Like - Share

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Holly Ord

Damn you sun, get the fuck back down there! I'm not ready for you to be rising yet.

August 18 from identi.ca - Comment - Like - Share

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and this is why you didn't write the song Here Comes the Sun :) - Brian Wallace

April Buchheit

Note to self: Don't 'friend' your boss on FB and then bitch about your job.

August 9 - Comment - Like - Share

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Owned. - Johnny

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El. Oh. El. You gotta be some sort of stupid to friend your boss before your probation period is up. Fired in front of friends and family? PRICELESS. - Anika

She's a f*ing idiot. A similar thing happened to a friend of mine at an ad agency, who accidentally texted "my boss is a fucking cunt" ... to her boss. She didn't get fired or reprimanded, but she freaked out about it. - LANjackal

It floors me how much people openly vent about their jobs on public feeds like FriendFeed. Even if your boss isn't a direct contact, how are people so sure that a boss or co-worker won't stumble across it? - Mike Doeff from iPhone

If I have complaints about work, I try to mask them as much as possible or make them more about me personally than the job itself. At the same time, I really try to stay mum about any job I have.. - Jon, the Beartato of FF

Mike and how are you so sure that other people don't know who you are talking about? There's a person here on FriendFeed who complains about their coworker. Even though I live in a different city, I know that coworker. - Anika

+1 Anika. I generally refrain from talking bad about my employer/coworkers ANYWHERE online. Even on anonymous accounts. You just never know who might freak out and file an unmasking court order. It's happened before. - LANjackal from IM

It also doesn't matter if anyone sees it when you write it, because The Google sees it and records it for anyone looking for it years from now. - Trish R

Maybe the more general rule that comes into play here is to never say anything about someone you wouldn't tell them to their face. - Ken Sheppardson

Well said Ken. - Benjamin Taylor

What an idiot... When people claim we don't need guidelines for employees using social media, I just have to point out cases of extreme stupidity like this... - Badger Gravling

Ouch! Hope she learned the lesson. And +1 Ken, this is the simplest rule not to forget at any point. - lelapin

this is huge! - Loic Le Meur

OH those lessons learned the hard way. - anna sauce

This is great! Don't bite the hand that feeds especially if you're friends on FB. - Gabe Diaz from iPhone

Why friend your boss in the first place, especially if all you do is complain about the job? - Adrian McMillan

Ouch… :P - Daniel Schildt

Well someone has to make room for other people! From the sounds of it, she was probably already canned anyway. - Robert Fisher

Well that was a bit dumb. The thing about social media is it's just so much a part of our lives. We are encouraged to pour our views and feelings into it but we have to remember who is going to be reading it. In the end we have to censor ourselves so as a result our lifestream is a watered down stream. There are no directors cuts. - Parvez Halim

Absolutely priceless! - Robert Couture

Oh and I forgot the LOL. - Parvez Halim

this is something that may occur very often. More than we think! - Rui

@Rui I remember a colleague of mine did a similar thing. Luckily they got away with a written warning and no pay rise for that year. - Parvez Halim

HUGE! - Nathan Guetta

Interestingly, every time I consider complaining about my job via any social media platform, I stop and think "how can I make my job better? how can I improve myself?" and then end up writing about that instead. It has made me a much happier person. Really. - mike fabio

OMG ! this is awesome - Franck Nouyrigat

OUCH! - Retno Nindya

:). Well it's okay for both of them. It sounded like the employee was really unlucky to got this job. He hated it deep inside. The "Boss" don't need people which don't love their work, ASK YOURSELF: What's more worse? Being fired after posting you real thoughts somewhere, or keep on working without having a bit of joy or patience on the job and face serious health problems after some time? - Ryo / Fuck Facebook

.. and that's why I'm private. I'm pretty good about not talking about work, but never know when I may say something completely stupid - Rodfather

I think there is a serious point here: Your on-line social network pals will be supportive of you regardless of whether you are right or wrong. That's what friends are for, kind of. All the boss does is let in a bit of reality. - sjjh

Maybe she wanted to be fired by her boss? Just questioning... - Torsten Eckert

Splendid. Too bad the story isn't real. OR IS IT...? - Francesco Balducci

I do so love the false sense of anonymity the Internet instills in people. - matthew john ernisse

haha! - orionstarr

Where did you get this? I'm trying to verify that it is actually a real event. Looks too 'perfect' and to generate this much hype I believe it is just two friends that wanted to laugh about how stupid the world is... - Brian J. Reeves

I wondered the same myself. The language suggests it's from the UK - LANjackal from IM

... or somewhere else where the British style of speech dominates - LANjackal from IM

April - you can't imagine how many people e-mailed me screenshots of this :) - Charlie Anzman

I wish I was here in order to press the "Like" button. - Clément Cailly

social media and your boss don't mix well :) - Dave Q

Zing! - Nick Mutton

Alp

Pepsi vs Coca-Cola (via http://friendfeed.com/mohac...) #pepsi #cocacola

August 7 - Comment - Like - Share

Andre Pope, Tony Long, Tolga Aşk and 47 other people liked this

folks, it is obvious. - Alp

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Coke had it right from the start, so why change? - Cathy Harrison

Suggest reading this as a follow-up :) http://www.underconsideration.com/brandne... - Mo Kargas

coke will never die - Rachael Depp

This is obviously a fake. The truth is : http://img196.imageshack.us/img196... - Pierre-Olivier Dybman

I agree with Pierre. Coke may have majority market share but Coke has definitely tried to change things up a few times - Johnny

I am amazed. I am so Diet Coke but i have noticed many of my favorite restaurants changing to Pepsi. Oh no! - Janaree Nore

Oh Pierre, thanks for letting us know the thruth. - Alp

so ... pepsi? lol. no seriously i like dr.pepper best - Logan Lindquist

Thanks Pierre, I was just about to mention the several Coke logo changes in my lifetime. - Anika

I agree with Pierre, I was trying to find something like that and you found it already. I remember they even had it in wiki but now when I went there I couldn't find it, maybe Coca-cola have started a new campaign. lol. - Mahmood Padura

The end logos say 2008, but the pepsi one at least didn't come out until only a couple months ago, so both are technically wrong. - Raymond

The only thing that Pepsi has ever made that was worth a damn was Mt Dew. The rest tasted like ass in can on a warm day :D - Moved to Facebook from fftogo

Pierre++ . And for Pepsi, I liked the 73-era logo the most. - Andrew C

There is a version far more better: Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi, Revised Edition - http://www.underconsideration.com/brandne... - Amílcar Tavares

Amilcar, Pierre linked that image above. - Anika

Pepsi'nin son logosu biraz itici geldi bana - Eray Alakese

Thanks Anika. My mistake. - Amílcar Tavares

+ Pepsi logo from 2015 http://bttf.wikia.com/wiki... - Florent

Bir tarafta ajda pekkan bir tarafta ananem:) - Umut ÜNLÜ

Maybe not 100% accurate, but the concept has validity. Nice post! - Tony Long

Tout change, tout évolue. Seuls les imbéciles ne changent pas. - Reloj

Corvida

Retweeting Is The New Linkback – Could It Be? | SheGeeks.net - http://shegeeks.net/retweet...

August 10 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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These days it seems you’re more likely to get a retweet for your content before a linkback to it. Not surprisingly so due to the huge difference between the process needed to create a linkback versus a retweet. Let’s examine, shall we? - Corvida from Bookmarklet

mashable

If you're having problems with Twitter, read this: "Twitter Apps Still Recovering From DDoS Attacks"- http://mashable.com/2009...

August 10 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Sarah Perez

LA Police Department Considers "Going Google" - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

August 7 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Loic Le Meur

@1938media hi buddy, every year I (try to) go completely offline for a week and I almost succeeded, could not help but check email, no reply

August 7 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I think i need to do this.. been thinking about it heavily.. I would need to go to the mountains or somewhere with no access to wifi I also want to let go of my fone too for the week - Rachael Depp

It is a good thing to do. During summer holiday season is a good time to do it I reckon. - jjprojects

Brendan Jackson

So many Social Media "experts" out there peddling their wares - just more people for me to sigh and shake my head at.

August 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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fun, isn't it? ;) - Brian Wallace

Robert Scoble

New blog post: you are SO unfollowed! http://scobleizer.com/2009... I'll follow on FriendFeed anyone who comments here:

August 5 - Comments disabled - Like - Share

Ozer Wrzl (EN), Jens Christian Freund, Harold Cabezas and 157 other people liked this

Follow me! - TheHenry

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TheHenry: I already am! :-) - Robert Scoble

Please don't unfollow me!! :) - Carlo Nasuti

oh yeah! I forgot! lol! #fail - TheHenry

Very interesting approach Robert. If it is working for you that is awesome though. Hope all is well. Give Roc a big hug for me. - C.C. Chapman

Yo... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Not too much unfollowing please. - Tim

i'm in - Tai Hsia

Can you follow me? - Giorgio

ok I'll allow you - Derry O Donnell

What's going on here? - Andru Edwards

I think you're already following me Robert. - Andrew Leahey

well ok ) - Denverken

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. - Robert Kenney

* - Michael J. Carrasquillo

[comments here] - Nick Humphries

I will comment here! :) - John Ptacek

Great blog appreciate all of your "likes" that I would not have noticed before. Thanks for all the time you spend educating us. - Gary Prechtel

auto-follow always seemed like a bad idea. people can always msg you but your stream will get totally cluttered if you dont do a little bit of housekeeping. - William Kapes

"baby I'm a star" -Prince (off purple rain) - Michael J. Carrasquillo

novel approach, seems sound - Danny Ayers

Consider me available for following. :-) - Eric D. Wilson

Okay, I'll bite.. - Tanya

Bring it Scobleizer. - Todd Pringle

I agree, Twitter is much better this way. - Ryan W

I appreciate your work, and your passion for social media. - Evan Travers

sounds simple... - Mateo Yadarola

Scoble follow me baby - Jadito

Oh you are getting quite a response here!!!! I'm commenting so you'll follow me but the thing is you're going to LIKE following me because you'll learn all about Sedona through tons of videos and you'll love it so much you'll want to pack your camera and head out here! =) - SedonaTV

Thanks for the mentions, Robert (and you know I'm not commenting just for the follow - I just like to follow you, which is what counts!) - Jesse Stay

Guess I might as well delete that overpriced twitter app I bought last week. - Shea from iPhone

Actually Robert, now I've seen you've tidied up your twitter, I'll probably follow you there again too. :-) - Tim

hey follow me scoble - Andy Jenks

Meh, who cares really, not like you read everyone you followed. Plus unfollowed you anyways, not like you have to say that's interestined except friendfeed spam. - Steve

joining the crowd - good move Robert. - Adam

follow me - Tai Hsia

welcome to Boulder - Andrew Hyde

@scobleizer just created the most important tech follow list on Twitter. - Christian Anderson

aww shucks, and here I was thinking it was just me who you unfollowed. - Jess Sloss

I underwent the same situation, Robert - I unfollowed almost everybody on Twitter who duplicated their accounts here on FrF. I got a tempest of fury for this action. web3 is too personal still )) - socimediator

Scoble in Boulder = Trouble. - Jim Halligan @jim

I feel fortunate that you're still subbed to me on FF. I haven't even noticed whether you unfollowed me on Twitter. But you following me, still hasn't gotten me the chicks. :P Always fun seeing your posts, long as you don't block me, it doesn't matter if you follow me or not. :) - Arlan Koizumi

I did the same thing some weeks ago after avoiding twitter because it got too noisy. It was instantly better. But in the mean time I started to use FF more and I like it better here so I hardly go near twitter now. - Murray Barton

You already follow me here on ff, which i use more than twitter. - dthree

What's up? - Kevin Whalen from iPhone

Hey Robert, so for following >1,600 is it that right way taken by Philtro and Filttr? - Martin Adamek

I'm glad you mentioned Loic, he caught a lot of flack for doing this earlier. - Steven Cains

Hey Robert - fight the tweetspam ! - Michael Neale

Don't think you are following me on Twitter anymore..please do and best regards - Karma Martell

I'm still trying to figure out the following... so I'm watching how you do it scoble. - Matthew Schrock

Good plan. I'm looking forward to your results. I'm trying to figure out all these social media elements. I would appreciate your Twitter follow. - David Stanley

hope this new approach works for you! - timepilot

Oh, so now you are only easy on FF. - James Watters

Odd internal response, I don't follow everyone who follows me cuz of the very noise you talk about. And, there's no good reason for you to follow me since I'm unlikely to deliver news of interest to you. And yet, here I am, posting on FriendFeed so you have the OPTION of following me, a stranger who is not the same kind of SMART as you. Who'd have thought... - Della Mauler

Interesting statement about original content value of FF independent of twitter. Twitter is where you keep your noise level down... - James Watters

This seems like asking for trouble to me, Scoble. But, it's your time and bandwith to do with what you will. Since only a handful of people (by that I think I mean just one) follow me on Twitter, it's pretty easy for me to weed out the bots. The people I follow are my internet nerds (mostly the Rev 3 crew) so I know their interests are in line with mine. Hit me up for some edifying conversations about Lost and video games, Robert. - Jeremiah Green

Here you go Robert! [also via twitter: @Scobleizer Therefore: only approx. 1.7 million "active" human @Twitter users contribute 50%+ of all activity, right? #engagement] Regards, @AAinslie - Alexander Ainslie

The green avatar is so disturbing mate. :) - Jordan Windebank

I'll lead, you follow. So where are we going? - Tom Sheppard

I was sad to see you unfollowed me, but now you may follow me again, so all will be well in the world. - Jodi

following the leader... - John Munro

You're still following me - does that mean I'm a smart feller? ;) - Brett Kelly

so glad I mail Robert a business card every month :) - Christian Anderson

Della: the thing is here I can follow you and put you into a list and watch you less frequently than some of my other people. So everyone wins. But only here on FriendFeed. :-) - Robert Scoble

Some of us have been doing this from our start. Kind of cool, eh? But our numbers don't grow quickly so we were tagged as "slow." Nice to see you catch up with us! Also, this may shock you, there sre folks who follow and communicate with only 3 folks on twitter and they are HAPPY! Imagine.... - lynda spangler

Yay. Now he will follow a librarian. - Joe....

Follow this dot!!! . - Bwana ☠

I've long thought the entire Twitter "etiquette" of always following who follows you to be a bit of a folly. I'm following 114 at the moment, and the stream still moves too fast for me to keep up with. - Darren Landrum

Comment! - anna sauce

ok - Vasu Srinivasan

Good test, count me in... I don't follow tons of people, I follow a few prolific Scoble-types and the rest are more focused in areas I'm interested in. - David Ziembicki

I'm not following tons of people, just a select few. More to follow on FB when facebook has completely integrated Friendfeed-funcionality. ;-) - Wolfgang G. Wettach

I only follow people I know or have something interesting to say, did you really have 160000 people that said something worthwhile??? - Gerard Vanschip-Miyama

Well I commented via your Blog so instead of repeating myself I'll link to comment http://disq.us/1ms9 - Keith - @tsudo

Gerard: everyone says something worthwhile once in a while. The trick is to see it when it happens. Here on FriendFeed, by the way, you have a better shot because good stuff usually gets liked and commented on, so it pulls up higher into my view. - Robert Scoble

come join us here folks http://ff.im/6dUHN xxx - Mark

Okay. But will you read and comment on my stuff? - Mellissa Jane

Robert, I posted this after Loic's decision and it looks like it will need another update. http://www.knowthenetwork.com/blog... I think there is value in stating your follow policy. - Keith - @tsudo

cool - Zach Cheatham

Hello? - Vicky

following all the discussion of you unfollowing everyone on twitter has made me think about doing the same thing and starting fresh. - (jeff)isageek

not unless we beat you in the Ashes - Mark

Nice post Robert, and no surprise it's an improvement. ;o) I have seen it for me too. - Rob Sellen :o)

1 thing I find Robert still worth following @Scobleizer when I am not on friendfeed & on my Hootsuite or PeopleBrowsr. therefore not much affected, not much 2 bother me, ego not gone at all. luv your post Robert it is a frank posting - polou/indigo_bow

Follow me Robert, I promise I'm not annoying. :) @cluteman - Greg Clute from iPhone

You've piqued my curiosity. - Chainz

Robert, thank you! I follow you and enjoy your "likes" and your energetic takes. I also enjoy your Building43 interviews! I am a constant FriendFeed user now. Thank you! - Tobin Truog

This made me realise I must be more active on FF and comment/post more :-). - Mats Pettersson

I think I'll give FriendFeed a go! Never tried it, but looks easy and I need to understand the interwebs better. @CodeSamurai_Com - CodeSamurai

butt-kissing is not a prerequisite for being followed, he will follow you anyways :D - Mark

Count me in! (Please??) - Ricky Maveety

lol @mark. ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

You can follow me, but since you follow a lot of people, you probably can't pay attention to the stream of tweets. - Alex Knight

Alex..that's the WHOLE point he did this... ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

IMHO 1,647 is still way too many people to follow. - Alex Knight

I will NOT get baited into ... ah CRAP. I follow very few people on twitter, mainly only to find info from Android developers (my topic of choice). If you mention anything about the food you are currently eating, etc.. you will probably not be followed. If you post 80,000 times a day, you will not be followed, since Twitters interface sucks (not so for FF). Also, no offense to other social users, but if you resend your FF/FB/<insert other social site here> entries to twitter, I probably won't follow. - Tim Hoeck

http://socialspark.com/blogs... Chris Pirillo is Scum. - Mark

good move IMO - Joanna Nicol

Love the post, love the response. - Chris Rogers from BuddyFeed

nice hanging out at with beach w/ you last week! follow moi!!! - Raina Lee

I always feel like scoble's following me - Rodney J Woodruff from iPhone

Don't forget your Dunbar number, Scoble! There are only so many people you can have meaningfully connect with online. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Mark is right. No butt kissing. Ew. - Robert Scoble

"I always feel like, somebody's watching me..." - Wizetux

Comment!!!! Ohh wait but you already follow me... - Amit Nangare

Follow me, if you aren't already....please. Thanks, - Steve de Mena

here is my comment ZOL - Shane Gibson

Comment? What kind of coomment, Robert? :-) - Mitch Featherston

Whoop there it is! On Twitter @jimgoldstein - Jim Goldstein from iPhone

Oh..Oh... Mr. Kotter...Mr Kotter..follow me! - Scott Booher

Glad to see you're writing more than 140 characters on that blog. Doesn't that feel liberating? Maybe we should be allowed character# based on your metric for powerful/smart/newsmaker - Noah Bloom

You already follow me here on FF, for which I thank you. So, I'll just say thanks for the phone call the other day. :) - Jeff Harbert

I'll take a follow! - Jeff Weber

@shaunhess - Shaun Hess

Ok, so follow me again and I will follow you back. Thanks! - Audrey

Robert - I fail on most of your criteria so I'm not expecting you to follow me. The thing is I don't care if you follow me back - this is social media and everyone has their own choice. I choose to follow you because you entertain and inform me. The relationship is 100% one way and I am more than happy with that! - Pon

Robert - Last night at GDGT Party the person at the Blackberry booth said: 1) She had 'heard of Twitter, never friend feed' uses neither 2) Is SCOBLE is coming tonight 3) Wow, your Blackberry is really "archaic" and find out when contract lets you upgrade. F-D UP? Booth babes need primers. - Liza

Interesting theory... people who comment more apt to contribute? - Mark Philpot

I know someone else who tried this strategy last year, with similar results. I've been debating it. Once I got over 3K followers on Twitter life just got weird. Started to spend X amount of time every day blocking porn spam. - Patricia F. Anderson

Liza: yeah, sorry for not coming to the party. I went and saw Obama's CTO instead. - Robert Scoble

Steve Lynch: my Dunbar number is higher than yours is. :-) - Robert Scoble

Nice summary Robert on the whole Unfollow thing, but would it be too repetitive if I re-post on my FF? - Keith Rowland

What is the best friend feed aggregation strategy of non-friend streams (eg RSS, twitter, etc)? Imaginary friend per service, then add to lists? Multiple services per imaginary friend or 1 to 1? Or add the services to a group? What are the considerations? - John Brown

Keith: you can repost anywhere you like, thanks! - Robert Scoble

I'm in! - Craig Shipp

still wondering how you are able to handle such a big load of subscribers here and e.g. so many followers with twitter o_0. I am already (sometimes) lost with the few i got till now. Lately with one sweep almost 40 to 50 contacts in twitter disappeard and i have no clue why ... boah, how are you handling the noise? Hell, with so many ppl in, you might have a terrific noise? Or you wear just good headphones ;)? - Ronald

I very much agree that being choosy is the key to Twitter. I'm not nearly on the scale that you are, but in my experience, freely following people (whetther they follow me or not) and then mercilessly cutting back on them over and over again results in a kind of darwinianly better and better signal to noise ratio. - Tim Maly

Touche! - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Count me in - Johnny

Hi Robert - Randy Allen Bishop

Liked the blog post and totally agree. I've been meaning to do something similar. What I do is occasionally prune and then add some "better" replacements, so my total is always 2000 follows. - Bora Zivkovic

I don't see how anyone can manage so many users without groups. Then again, with groups you could just make an "ignore" group. - Oscar M. Cantu from iPhone

Great blog post. I totally agree on the noise level. I figure I have blocked a few hundred accounts on Twitter, and my noise level has dropped dramatically. Thanks for the follow! - Tony "Frosty" Welch

Hello Hello! - Sam Goldfield

Robert - I figured you were in DC from FF, but she had NO IDEA what a CTO is. Point is, she was eager to give you a Blackberry, but not me, and I wish I had a Scoble costume to pretend for 5 minutes. - Liza

@Robert I think you are starting another mass follow again. - Steve Chou from fftogo

Steve: that's not the problem. As long as spam doesn't enter the system I can deal. Keep in mind here I can choose how I follow. I can put you all in a folder that I never look at, if I wanted to. - Robert Scoble

my feelings were hurt that you unsubscribed to me on twitter, but i agree with your methods - Brian Appleby

I'm in! - Chris Rossini

Brian, yeah, but I follow you here. So there. - Robert Scoble

really doesn't matter as long as i can follow you, that's the beauty of these services - Brian Appleby

How did you come to follow so many to begin with? I get annoyed with ppl and unfollowing is easier than sifting through their garbage constantly. - R1CC1

Autofollow was a horrible idea to begin with. - David Chieng

I kind of tired to keep an eye on who follows me now,the ones I'm following is much more important.:-) - Steve Chou from fftogo

Whoa lots of comments I'm following you longtime lol - Edgar Rodríguez from iPhone

Robert: we need more intelligent spam-follower-filtering on Twitter! We need to fix this. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

@David +1 I think auto follow is such a bad idea to begin with,and people like Robert now even need to pay to unfollow these people. - Steve Chou from IM

How much did SocialToo charge for running the unfollow script? - Shane

I'm in! - rich brant from iPhone

I heard its 25 dollars. - Steve Chou from IM

I've always been very picky in who I follow on twitter. I follow 40 people, and I can't guarantee that I see every single tweet. I don't scroll back usually, unless it's my "Real Life" column in Tweetdeck that couldn't fit on my screen. - Tom Ribbens

My birthday is also January 18th, therefore you must follow me Robert! ;) - Chris Luckhardt from BuddyFeed

Thanks Steve! $25 is pretty reasonable. Wonder if anyone else will be jumping on the bandwagon - Shane

Haha....I also threw the devil horns for Scobleizer...that should count for something. ;) http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Chris Luckhardt from BuddyFeed

OK, let's try it! And what about Twitter? - Alexei Zheglov

Thanks for your post. Last time I checked you follow me here on FriendFeed. OK not to follow me on Twitter. - Pilgrim Five

Smart way to clean house. - Jeremy Chone

u have already subscribing me although i am just a-staying-at-home mum =)). thanx scoble. u are really a nice geek. haha! - zʍıɔ

Let's do it. - Kate

this is like an awesome commentfest - Edgar Rodríguez

You can follow me, but I never say anything. Oh.. wait.... - James Macgill

follow me! - Tate DA FF MVP from BuddyFeed

Sometimes the tortoise beats the hare after all... building organically based on getting to know people and interactions tends to avoid the ghastly spammers, seo peeps and bots - Sally Church

Tap, tap... is this thing on? - Yanik Falardeau

This is the best place to follow you. On twitter you only see post headlines, but friendfeed is where the conversation takes place. - Michael Fidler

Ah crap. You're already following me :) - Jason Nunnelley

I'm outside your sphere, but bootstrapping is bootstrapping right? - Travis Bedard

Tuesday night for the first time in 2 months I UNfollowed everyone on Twitter who wasn't following me. Since you had UNfollowed me, yup I unfollowed you. My Twitter account is so /FUBARed! It only goes to page 506 to show who I'm following and after that it is BLANK! I don't even know if they show in my Home stream. So Robert, I value what you say. Know I can tweet profusely - but it's as @replies to others with the occasional micro-blog thrown in. Question, what DID I do to cause you to UNfollow me? - Arleen Anderson

I hope you'll follow me... - Shane Tilton

Follow me, eh? - Joey Gibson

Trying to fill out those dropped Twitter follows? - Jamie Elgie

Scoble: Have you convinced Guy Kawasaki against his "follow everyone that follows you" mentality? - Kevin Pruett

please do what you must to have the most effecient feed mr scoble, the random will still creep through the cracks, ;) - chaz2b

I still haven't really adopted FriendFeed, but I will get interesting here in time if you follow me. - Lance M. Brown

How are your cleanup efforts coming along? - Jennifer Ruggiero

Oops - I also meant to ask, Robert: how are you managing to follow the couple thousand that you are now re-following on Twitter? You must be using groups, I guess...any other methods? I find ~500 people to be a near max in terms of how many folks I can fully read. - Lance M. Brown

Following your inspiration, I unfollowed almost 100 people last night and blocked about 1000 spammers, cam girls, MLM marketers, and the like. Twitter is more like it was a year ago, its almost like I gave my Twitter account an enema and it worked. Thanks for the original idea. - Mark Edwards

Excellent! - Don Strickland

Robert, I started out only following those I know and those I am genuinely interested in. I've only followed back a few of the people who've followed me. I have a second account that I decided to experiment with. I followed about 700 people on there. It has had about double the followers of my main account consistently. I am about to try some new tricks there with an auto-follow script I'm writing but I think I will stay the course with my main account. - Paul Eck

Robert, I tried the "follow everyone" (almost) method for a short time - then I'd unfollow about once-a-week. Now I try to schedule a "follow new" once a week. TweetDeck's group feature makes following lots of folks bearable. So does FF, but you've been saying that for-ever! - Kathy E Gill

I am just taking it slow. - Rick Cogley from iPhone

Hey. - Kreg Steppe

I will follow you if you follow me (Genesis) - Keith Barrett

I may not be smart, but I'm smart enough to follow you! - John Pfaff

It occurred to me (and surely to someone before me), that different definitions of "following" might be a big factor here. If I'm following someone, it means I'm following along with their updates. But others might see themselves more as becoming part of a person's "following". Not that they are necessarily reading the person's stuff, but they are willing to be considered part of that person's inflated Twitter posse, as part of the influence-trading aspect of Twitter. - Lance M. Brown

Robert, I think that the biggest thing that changed is not that you were "wrong" (to follow everyone) before but that the Twitter population has changed so much. A year ago, pretty much everyone on Twitter was real, and interesting - now there's so much automated gaming the system going on that the signal to noise ratio has gotten unbearable. So I think anyone who cares about more than... more... - Matthew Blaisdell

I can't imagine how it would happen technologically, but it would be great if there was a way to ditch followers who weren't actually reading your tweets. - Lance M. Brown

Enjoyed recent posts and look forward to more from you! Keep it up. - One Degree Connected

I don't want to be left out please!! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

All right, I'll bite :) - although I'll say that I did the mass-unfollow-thing months ago - long before it was cool. - Justin from Nambu

Your most active followers are on FF. No loss.If you really wanted to make a bold statement you ought to have blocked all of your followers and started from scratch. - Benjamin Taylor

Been a while since I put you and Shel On the record...Online - Eric Schwartzman

blah. - imabonehead

Good article Robert. I honestly enjoyed the perspective. I found the same to be true, but on a much lower scale, of course ;-) - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

i'm in! - Criz

I don't get it - so now you are using Twitter kinda like a normal person, and its some kind of miracle that it works better? - Nick Lothian

I'm impressed you can keep up with 1600 people. I have trouble enough with the little amount I have. I did find that making FriendFeed imaginary friends and putting them in groups for those I'd like to read occasionally (but not on a regular basis) has helped a lot - Tamara

Follow....how about some promotion! - Bob DeMarco

i'm in - Joshua Smith from twhirl

9/11 Was an Inside Job - bill giltner

Stop it, or I will have to get a restraining order. - Sriks7

Hey, Robert! - tomit from iPhone

In my mind I'm important enough to follow ;-) - Jonathan Callahan

Hello Robert....Whatever your favorite genre is...http://listen.grooveshark.com/#... - Michele Lorito-Chase

Looks like you have a lot of work to do following everybody. - Corbett Barr

now i'll have to write something interesting... - Robert Littlejohn

me! i offer nothing but the warm feeling of having accepted a ff reject. - Marco

ok. so how will you filter the noise now - Kfir Pravda

Ooo, I've won the lottery. You'll follow me now. Wheeee! (how do you have the time to go through all of the names by hand? VA assistance?) - Peggy Dolane

Great :) - Baard @ Pixum

Interesting trend on twitter - I always wondered what sense it made to follow tens of thousands of people, too much noise. I'm finding it hard enough to follow 2900 (looking to cull even that down as I mostly tweet about 30 people!) - Tia Singh, Life Coach

211th comment: WTF - Geer

Good :) - ★ Soner Gönül

I like your ability to influence so many people. I'm following you (mostly here - on FriendFeed) because it's one of the ways to learn how you do it (but, please, do not follow me if you do not see anything you could learn from me :-). - Hanna Wiszniewska

I would come up w/ a better vetting process. - Joe

why would you do that? - james

got to get a pic up so i can fit the criteria, I only follow 45 people and some of them are on thin ice ( Im lookin at you Scoble) - James Hunter

"Where in The Net is Robert San Diego?" (cit.) :-) - Luca Perugini from iPhone

I'm not kissing your arse,but i do learn a lot listening to you. - Paul Downing

@scobleizer why would you randomly follow people who comment in this post when you just got done knocking FFollo and having to unfollow a gazillion people on Twitter? - Bryan Zirkel

Bryan: because I'm following people one by one and putting them into lists on my screen. Autofollowing means you aren't doing ANY of that thinking. Also, autofollowing will get you spammers, if they ever show up (and they will). - Robert Scoble

@Robert: Read your blogpost and that's indeed what I look at to follow people too. No autofollow and even close friends have to tell something interesting for me to (keep) following. Friends who are new to Twitter (no tweets yet) get the benefit of doubt. - Patrick Mackaaij

If you follow me, great, but if you don't I'll understand. :) And I ought to do some pruning myself... - Grant Bierman

Let's give it a try. :0) - Toma Kazakov

I still don't understand how you want to follow someone who just writes a comment over here. Well, this is not the first time. I did not understand why and how you followed 100k people. I find it hard to properly follow 100 people. - Sumanth Kolar

Sumanth: obviously there are degrees of "following." When you read the New York Times, do you read the entire paper word for word? I don't. Same when I'm following. I only get random slices of some of my lists. Others, which have 500 people on them, get 100% read. - Robert Scoble

I'm still here . . . although tired after teaching all day. Louis Gray came to my PR class at SFSU and WOWED the 50 students [except for one who thinks we are making too much of social media] We won't be following him. - Shari Weiss

I like cheese! - Paul Puri

really? - clockwise from iPhone

Shari: Louis wows me too. Glad to see the class is getting into it. - Robert Scoble

He he :) - Richard Holas

I still like the "stranger stream" of Twitter vs "friend feed" of other applications. I don't feel the need to read all tweets from everybody - and tools let me check my fave tweeples. I think mass unfollowing destroys some of the social contract - Robert you are lucky because you are well liked and can do some risky things but companies for example (not Brands of One) would be in... more... - Laurel Papworth

As @charleneli predicted back in January, 2009 will be the year of de-friending on social networks. It's here. - Mark Evans

Laurel: yeah, you have to navigate these waters carefully if you are representing a brand, that's for sure! - Robert Scoble

you can put me on your boring list... - Charles Tanton

i will not get followed back: not powerful, don't have a brand, not a news maker... but i kinda understand the reasons - Dani Martínez

I still think it all goes into how you use twitter. If your using it as a communication tool it depends on if you are looking for broadcast or 2 way. Its interesting to watch as some of the bigger names turn back from the broadcast and go back to the 2 way. - Luke Kilpatrick

@Robert so when you're taking in information from FF do you have a feed of several dozen/hundred "key" people and then categorize the rest, or are you mainly searching? Do you utilize groups at all or mainly just rely on what comes across your feeds? I guess I'm curious as to how you're using FF to collect information. - Bryan Zirkel

I have found Twitter becomes noise rather than a conversation once the following/follower thing gets over a certain mark. I think this is the dirty little secret of Twitter - if it just turns into white noise, rather than a filter, then it becomes less than useful. - Michael Liss

I'm interested in how we'll all feel over the next few years as social networks continue to change and more people and organizations get on them. Obviously, many of us are getting fed up with spammers and are unfollowing them on Twitter and Facebook. I am also having a hard time keeping up with new subscribers on FriendFeed because I know less about them from their profiles and have to... more... - Cathryn Hrudicka

BTW, I feel like I'm finding lots of interesting new people to follow from these discussions that Robert and others are holding on FF. Cool! - Cathryn Hrudicka

Am I too late to comment and get followed? - Hichame Assi

I'm definitely around :) - KyNam Doan

Aren't you following me already? If not, you should be! LoL - Thomas Ward

I'm definitely late to be followed. :D - Faraz Mullick

I don't get it but ok :) - Parvez Halim

LOL! I follow those I find interesting and which can give me useful information. And hope someone follows me for the same reasons. - Flavio

Very interesting post - I've always thought that you guys who follow loads of people must get completely swamped by noise! Like you, I've found it useful to follow companies I use that have interesting products like Zoho and Evernote as a way of keeping up to date with their latest innovations. Excellent idea spelling out your "follow criteria" - it needs to become standard etiquette for social networks so that people don't get offended when they aren't followed back :) . - David Meredith

aren't you doing the same thing here, that you did in Twitter? Choose carefully who you follow, filling your brain with pollution doesn't make you smarter - Allison

Just finished reading the Mashable post on your unfollow exercise. It's attracting attention from all the other big names now. - George Hall (Australia)

Very interesting indeed, I only to unfollow a few, cause I just never had auto follow on.. So now I just unfollow the ones I'm bored of.. - Jaap Willem

Seems like a good idea. Although Louis Gray also has a few valid points on his latest blog post why it might be a mistake http://bit.ly/19UKxk - Silver Hage

I've never understood the auto-follow procedure on any social network. Even on Facebook, where it is obligatory, one can still lower the noise by simply hiding the updates of those who want to follow you, but perhaps also have little personal connection and therefore can be hidden. - Noah Gray

It seems like the unfollowing was the easy part. Choosing who to follow again must have been a chore. I think it is crucial in twitter (and FriendFeed for that matter) to have a clear out every six months or so otherwise you get bogged down in an information feed you don't really care about. - Chris Nixon

I can totally understand why you had to do this. I'm following 2700-ish folks on Twitter and I need 3 groups to manage it (using TweetDeck). I feel I am keeping up with most of my local community and the general tech community at large though I'm sure I'm still missing quite a bit of stuff from people who are not in the 3 groups. I also wonder how much more I can actually handle. - Ken Seto

Um... well, I made something of myself, but then I didn't like what I made, so now I'm doing it all over again. Not sure how that fits with your criteria! Plus, I really don't have a brand or any influence to speak of. I do look great in boxers, however. - Mark Jepsen

OK, OK, changed my picture. Instead of a green clock (a clock is my personal brand) I put a picture of myself. A lot of people told me to do that.... - Bora Zivkovic

I am still looking for info on holographic technology being used for news delivery. Perhaps it's a technology that hasn't even been invented yet or is sitting on a shelf somewhere. What say you? http://specialdee.wordpress.com/2009... - Denise

Hoping your new look account has had the desired effect. No need to follow me, I'm not the interesting type, I'll just be glad if your insights, links & content continues. Congrats & good luck - JanLawrence

Here's what's interesting, Robert, I've noticed an uptick in followers even if you reply or RT or like someone's tweet, not just if you follow that person. Then again, perhaps that's the intent - if you like or RT someone's idea, that's a kind of stamp of approval. - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Hej hej! - Peter

The Scoble Pendulum.. How long till we go back to FOLLOW!! FOLLOW!!! FOLLOW!!!! ? :) - Ade

I did a purge on Facebook for the same reasons a few months ago. It's under 300 and it's people I actually care about. I've come "this close" to running a purge on Twitter but haven't yet. Maybe this will spark me to do it. I've kept FF tight from the beginning. - Rob Williams

moving from FB to FF ... fewer, longer, more meaningful threads. welcoming your follow. cheers - marc calamia

ok, you´re following me already :-) - Torsten Eckert

alright - follow me... - thx in advance Robert Scoble... - Nilesh

All that commenting in the past counts for nothing? - Kevin Gamble

Hey Robert... Great post... On FriendFeed, I increasingly put people without meaningful and valuable content on a separate feed that I rarely check... Its a more "sensible" way to unfollow, i think... I only unsubscribe if I get pissed at someone etc. I wish, FF gave users the option to only unsubscribe from comments and likes (but keep the main feed). This would be a good tool to control the noise... - Onur Kabadayi

I agree with Robert (duh!). I very briefly made the effort of checking out the new follows and deciding whether to follow back. I think once I hit a thousand I shifted to a model of occasionally saying, "If you want me to follow you, talk to me." Hit two thousand and quit saying anything or checking followers. I don't care if they follow me as long as they either say useful things like real people or don't talk at all. I've never autofollowed back. This strategy works for me. - Patricia F. Anderson

I have a large difference between people I follow (around 2000) and people who follow me (around 1800) - I choose people who are important sources of information. People choose me if they think I am an important source of information to them. I never thought it would have to be a one-to-one relationship as to who is useful to whom: some are informative, others are good listeners and learners. I learn from people I follow and I hope my followers learn from me. - Bora Zivkovic

I also think that those of us who follow larger numbers of people don't use the stream in the same way. It is more dipping in and out of the stream, trusting that the important stuff will be repeated enough to float to the top, engaging with conversations of the moment. I wrote a blogpost on this earlier this year: http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2009... - Patricia F. Anderson

Someone told me twitter can be separated into two types. (id say at least two) - Kay Proskin

Scoble, I am beginning to think you are a cult leader :). Look at all these comments! I am using FF more and more these days... Useful for eGuiders.com that's for sure. - Marc Ostrick

I'm not sure your following me. - Amit Morson

Hey Scobie :D Follow me ! - paniaguai

I like Robert. He was one of the first people I followed on Twitter and brought me to FF. But I don't understand why people are desperate to have him follow them. Status? Some kind of virtual autograph? - Tech Introvert

What the heck. Follow me if you like. I'll be as entertaining & informative as I can. - Aaron Schaub from iPod

Been considering doing the same. Your post just might be the flame that lights a fire you-know-where to get it done. - Kate

I only follow a few people and keep losing track so lord only knows how you managed to even begin to keep track of a conversation before friendfeed came along - Iain from BuddyFeed

Well done! Who need followers that aren't reading your tweets anyway. - Sean Rasmussen

I just want a toaster! - ZuDfunck

I'm considering doing same once I'm more confident in my use of FriendFeed. I RT'd this and it resonated with at least one of my followers. - Tony Hollingsworth

'Hand-crafted personal network' is the meme of the moment, and whilst I can see the workmanship, where's the value going to be for you, Robert, in following this rag-tag (no offence people :) ) of folks from a gazillion different verticals. (OK, so they're mostly life scientists). - Andrew Spong

I use to want to be Bob Dylan. Now I am not so sure. - ZuDfunck

um..... - Spencer

My take: you can't be an authentic, credible voice to your community if you let 'sex & dollars' spammers hang on to your coattails. Spam followers matter.... in a bad way. Allowing them to be associated with you diminishes your potential value to genuine followers. It's a pain. It takes time. It's worth doing. More on this, if interested: http://tr.im/vJwb - Andrew Spong

I'll have mine to go. - ZuDfunck

Hope to see more "old fashioned blogging", like it better than tweets. Tweets are bound to disappear into oblivion the moment they're posted. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

"Spam followers matter.... in a bad way." - I certainly agree with this. I block pornbots just as quickly as they follow me. I'm less vigilant about the commercial follows, but usually they go away by themselves after a while. - John Craft

You're already following me here (don't care about twitter tough), so i just hope you don't un-follow, even though you probably don't understand what i'm talking about most of the time, since it's in portuguese. - Diego Sana

So what happened to the advantages to following so many people you always talked about? - Bas

Thanks for connecting here, still learning all the advantages of FF - carece

@Andrew Regarding spam followers and the idea that allowing them to follow you somehow dilutes your credibility, I just have to disagree. To me that places the burden on the wrong person. I don't have time to waste pruning those who follow me, unless they are overtly annoying.My stream is public, they can follow me anyway. What matters to me is that the spammers leave me alone. If they don't, I block them. If they keep quiet, I don't care. - Patricia F. Anderson

What is important is not who follows me, but who *I* follow. - Patricia F. Anderson

Follow me if you want, but I gotta warn ya, it's scintillating stuff! - Pierce Presley

Funny my twitter feed is much noisier but I have been very selective on who I follow. I have tried to make the feed relevant and actionable. At times I post things that seem out of the norm on my twitter feed but that is mainly for the few people who follow me that don't get it but I am trying to keep up their interest level. I also control who follows me, yes this breaks the model but I think the follow everyone model was broken and reckless - Richard Gallo

Am I interesting? Dunno. I'm often controversial, tho. ;) BTW, we met in person at a Pittsburgh Blogfest, but I really don't expect you to remember that. - Eric Williams

Enjoyed the post. I just started Twitter a few days ago to get away from Facebook. I like friendfeed the best - can't wait until it becomes more mainstream. - Robby Parker

Awesome move. Consider that my comment please :) - Charlotte Barker

friendfeed is definitively more evolved that Twitter. Conversely, user bases of Twitter is still its real (and unique) point of strenght... - Marco Castellani

Don't want you to follow me (unless you find my stream of interest) but it's quite interesting the number of people that comment to get you to follow! - Ben Drury

Hey Robert! So, I would like to talk to you about a social media company I'm working with right now. They launched a few months ago and their trajectory and momentum is pretty amazing. Oh, and I started unfollowing the noise in my Twitter after I commented on your blog post. - Gregg Le Blanc

Great ideas. I've been selective (though it fluctuates) about following people/accounts on Twitter since I joined about 2 years ago. I can't take too much noise. - Joe Lance from twhirl

I'm asking the same thing Bas asked... what about your video on the benefits of following so many people? I took a stab at that method of madness by starting to follow all kinds of people, and following anyone that followed me... but I always felt like I was missing good content from good people because of all the "spam". I started to use TweetDeck to create groups/columns for... more... - Timothy Federwitz

@Patricia - reminds me that I should probably review all my twitter followers and thin things down. :) - JA Castillo

thanks - Keith

I like conversing with interesting people. Sometimes that means commenting to get followed, @cogiva. ;) - Eric Williams

Hi Scoble! - Pete Gilbert

I did almost the same thing - unfollowed about 1000 from my 1500, no attention is way better - Maarten den Braber

Couldn't agree more. It's about time we all grew up. BTW Don't follow me. :-) - Gee Ranasinha

Robert what's the deal with Twitter? - stockmanmarc

Your post makes good sense. I didn't auto-follow & still find folks to unfollow because their noise gets too loud. - Debra Ellis

Very clever. I imagine the signal to noise is sooooo much better. - Chris Brogan

I've been thinking about unfollowing a bunch twitter folks as well. I'll look at SocialToo again. My initial experience with SocialToo wasn't good. However, it was during their infancy. - Ron Hudson

I don't blame you at all. Leo was all over that yesterday. - Daniel B. Honigman

why would simply leaving a comment prompt you to follow me? - David Wescott

You're not going to change your mind and mass unfollow us are you? - walidmREALTOR

Sup! :-) - Jon Winters

I suspect it identifies you as a real person interested in dialog, David. - Eric Williams

Followers are currency and you have plenty to spend - Lee Odden

Bob, did you do anything on Twitter recently ? Did you massively refollow people ? Seems like you screwed up Twitter : down for a while... ;-) - Enikao

Follow me! @carloscomputers - carloscomputers

very cool timing with just before twitter goes down hard! well done Robert! @crbrowning - Colin

@davidorban - David Orban

I've followed you and have really enjoyed your posts. I think I would miss that - Tom

Good to hear that your experiment has stopped the spam @lindsaydavies - Lindsay Davies

ciao Robert! - alex

Your ego is amazing. You make it seem like it is a special deal to be followed by you. I'm glad there are many very bright, talented people here who follow others, regardless of class, education, social status and not based on some snobbish criteria. - RuthNH

DON'T follow me! I write in Italian :-) - Lorenzo Strambi

Here I be - Robert

Wow, this is a lot of comments. And kudos for following Followable people who have something interesting to contribute to your day. I'm glad you did it, because that means you'll find AND share more interesting things. This, in turn, makes you more followable too. Thanks for seeing the light, so to speak. - ax0n

You killed twitter. - Melissa Pierce

and now with twitter down, many will flock to here! - Mark V. Fusco

I love rob - Mark from iPhone

Did this take down Twitter this morning Robert? - frank barry

That must of taken a long time :-) I've always been a fan of twitter, but I must say they have struggled in the last few weeks. We are working with their API on a project and their seems to be an issue every other day that causes problems. Do they have what it takes? - Chris Nadeau

I follow under 200 people and it's great. I can't imagine 1k+ . I add about three or four a month. - Mike Janicke

I unfollow people when I find I ignore their tweets/updates. After reading your blog, I think we ALL need to be more judicious. - Janet Barker-Evans

Is this why Twitter is down? LOL! Can't check to see if you unfollowed me. Hope not. You, Shel Israel, and Jeremiah Owyang were some of the very first people I followed way back before Twitter even had 100,000 people on the service. -- It's been a fun ride but, of course, the spammers always show up to make things difficult. - Brenda Young

How do you really know if you should be following someone until you follow them for a while? Sometimes I don't start talking to someone until I see a common interest, then I tweet back and we start talking, but that could be months later. I don't follow everyone back, but I follow back those that interact. I will unfollow once I see that won't happen, or I don't like their tweets. - Nadine Gilden

Twitter is victime of it own success, they have to re learn how to scal better, but more important they have to learn to share better. - abdellah

looks like you'll need to follow at least 343 people LOL - Shari Weiss

Friendfeed takes over for twitter finally? - Thomas Resing

@Patricia I don't want potential followers to be put off by who is following me. I wouldn't want them to think I care more about have n+1 followers than I do about what they're going to see if they review who I've allowed to follow me. Not to cull spammers suggests I care more about my experience than theirs. To a great extent, the quality of their experience will determine the quality... more... - Andrew Spong

1600 ... isn't that a big number too? It could be you'll think again before you follow every one here :) - Mario Gastaldi

Hi... do I get a follow? - Jason Mayoff

If you are already following me. Will you double follow me? :) - Brady

Hi Robert!! :) - Zaneology from Nambu

Still waiting for my Building 43 t-shirt. Not that I'm bitter or anything. ;-) - Donna Tuttle

Be sure to come by Dallas when you swing through Texas! - Zaneology from Nambu

Respect your opinion Robert but we'll have to agree to disagree. Yes I despise all the FakePornSpamBots who follow me. I block as many as I can, but can't keep up. Our views differ regarding what is important to SEE! I treasure home Home stream! I read it, refresh, read, refresh and in minutes I have the pulse of the world... at least MY world! EVERYONE has something of value to share at some point. If I UNfollow tens of thousands, I will miss so much worthy of consideration. - Arleen Anderson

Just another reason why it's good to diversify, I can still read your posts here. :) - Luis Sandoval

Cheers! - Jeff Wiant

Funny. I was catching up on news on Friendfeed for some odd reason. Great post; plenty for new and long-time users alike to consider there. - Alex Howard

I'm still waiting for the ultimate tool to manage my followings - I can only manage to keep up with about 1/3 of those following me. I'd love to see something that can tell me what friends of mine also follow those that I am or those that are following me. Maybe it's out there and I missed it? - TheDiva Rockin

Anyone interested in assessing the quality of their followers should check http://tweetblocker.com. It's pretty chastening. I aim to improve on my C rating. http://www.buzzom.com is a fun, fast way of decoupling yourself from non-reciprocal followers. You can select individuals to purge, or flush 50 random non-reciprocal followers at a time. - Andrew Spong

Robert, your timing could not be better. ;-) - Dave Martin

Great post, with perfect timing! Dang it, Dave Martin just took it off my lips. - Vadim Lavrusik

I hereby rename this comment thread neoTwitter <waves at followers> - Andrew Spong

/me waves - Kevin Johnson from iPhone

Awww, you gotta admit, saturation, the level of influence that you have, because of your high follower, count, is a tool of mass destruction. Seriously, did you think if you recommend an online service that people would not try it out? Was this an asassination attempt - Peter Murphy

I'm glad i'm not the only one who misses /me actions from IRC, Kevin. ;) - Eric Williams

With today's Twitter outage your timing is pretty stinking good, Robert. :) - Chris Cree

Now to get the rest of the world to follow that same logic when it comes to follow/unfollow! I only started being more selective as Twitter (and everyone else) started getting aggressive with spammers or anyone that even remotely did a single spammy tweet. Now if only there were the same contact management tools available for the other social networks as with Twitter. No matter what though, I'll continue updating my status when I eat a peanut butter sandwich! (With Fluff of course!). - Paul Monaco

Twitter couldn't handle the mass unfollow load, blew up... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

I've been followed by Robert Scoble :-) - David Finch

Follow iPolitics - Jacob Kobi Gamliel

Now I think that it is time to think about a way to make money using Twitter. - abdellah

@Mark, +1. When in doubt, the default delegation of blame goes to Robert. - Dave Martin

what is critical mass for twitter? Too few and nobody interacts, Too many and spam bots overwhelm, Is it 1K or 2K needed to get a real experience? - WarLord

Hmm can you unsubscribe from "comment notification via e-mail" in FF on a *specific* topic? This one :-) - Patrick Mackaaij

Of course I thonk it is a different experience if you hand follow reading each bio from the beginning then these mass purges are unnecessary - WarLord

I thought you already followed me. lol - Duane-PreppyDude

Not sure if you do, but here I am... - Aron Michalski

I am intrigued how RT addict will RT now?!! (ps: FF please don't post this to my twitter) - abdellah

I have been keeping my twitter account private a majority of the time lately b/c I am going through a divorce, but I really kinda like it. Have been reducing followers as well as the number I follow. - Jackson Miller

You should follow me here in FF and on Twitter too! - Karthi

hopefully most of us have proven our worth beyond commenting on this single thread - andy brudtkuhl

I like the way you operate, Scoble. Thanks in advance for the follow! - Dr. Frank Ramblings, Ph.D

Nice way of doing it... - Charles

No need to follow me unless you are actually going to engage in conversation with me. - Jeff Hurt

If you're already following and we comment, will you unfollow? *wink Hoping all is well your way! - Dayngr

4&5 are my favorite! Those are big reasons I decide to follow someone too. - Kelly Mitton

I'm lucky. Have never had Twitter spam. But then again I'm no Scoble either :) - Lori Reed

I am the peanut butter eating bot - Benjamin Spector

If you are already following me on ff does that mean I get a cookie or something? ;-) - Tomy Thomson

I'll add my name to the list. I came back to FF after the Twitter DoS outage. Maybe Scoble broke Twitter by all his unfollowing. He was the "glue" holding Twitter together. :-) - Tom Newman

Robert: Here's the bit you missed off the end of your title here: .... and put them in that group I don't read :-) - Jim Connolly

Hi Robert, greetings from germany. - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

add me for your social media and the practice of law news! - Rex Gradeless

Great post. I'm sure that some people might say that this kind of mass unfollowing will hurt Twitter, but I think it's just the opposite. Users who are following people they have no interest in just to pad their own numbers are diminishing the meaning of "following." - Mark Denton

@Ulrichmargarita - Ulrichmargarita

To stave off being unfollowed we need to comment here ya say? - Jason

you are already following me here... perhaps you'll consider re-following me on twitter too - Michelle

I don't know how you ever did it the other way. I am not in the tech world near as much as I used to be, which wasn't a whole lot. I just followed some random people I saw on SMugMug-related people on here when I started. You were one of them. I had no idea who you were (and still don't :-), but you talked about Twitter a lot too, which got me on there as well. Both services have really... more... - James Schipper

Follow away! - Ferdinand Perez

ok 400 jackpot - abdellah

Quality over quantity in all things, including (perhaps especially) Twitter. Loved your friending methodology -- those are the same rules I've applied since being on Twitter. Posted them onto Posterous to share the love with credit to you: http://lorilaurentsmith.posterous.com/ - Lori Laurent Smith

it's not about unfollowing, it's about filtering... - Barak Hachamov

I started out following everyone on Twitter.Then I got wise. When someone's stream becomes more noise than signal, that's when I consider unfollowing. I realize that threshhold is different for everyone, but I'll take "what I had for lunch" over a dozen bogus "marketing tips" any day. - Julie Barrett from twhirl

Well, I am trying to use FriendFeed more after watching Scoble's video on all those monitors he had up. I'm not a big consumer of information and don't own a TV but this online social stuff has been a perfect fit into my life because I can connect with people who are fountains of knowledge on a specific subject or are "human mashups". I like both! - Adria Richards

Why !? - Bertrand Soulier from iPhone

I've been reading al of this unfollow bits, and this point of yours: - Donna

Hey, I think that today you might make your point about FriendFeed being more interesting than Twitter. Hope you are well. Talked with @fransteps this morning and she is excited to work with you at Rackspace. - Kami Huyse

hi - George Desmyter

I would appreciate the follow, thanks! - Jeff Reisdorfer

I've been reading all of this un-follow posts lately, and this point of yours in WHY you unfollowed: "#2 Because I personally care about everyone I am following their noise level is a LOT lower. ." Is exactly what I do. And now I am starting to understand Friendfeed more. and using posterous to do aggregate posts. So is this overload making more people sit up and think first? I think so. At least the intelligent ones. - Donna

I love you Scoble! ;) - Carol Levesque

with all due sycophantism :) - jeff hammond

This is a great move, Robert. It's also a lot more human...I was almost convinced that you were the only person who could actually drink from the fire hose without choking. - Steffan Antonas

That sounds fair. After this morning, I've renewed my love for FriendFeed and Tweetworks. Until the next DDos attacks, of course. I will miss the fake porn stars, but I did when I moved from L.A. - Scott Pierce

Steffan; I agree...there is no way anyone else could do what Robert S. does. It's good to see him become human. - Robert Jones

This has been my problem for about the past six months. I routinely go in and unfollow, get the noise level down to where I want it, and then end up following back a bunch of new people, some of whom I'm incredibly grateful to get to know. When I had track, it was a whole lot easier to manage the stream, but I suspect even that tool would now be out of hand. I have a set of rules for... more... - Karoli

hee hee. i am commenting not so much to beg your follow but what a clever pitch:) - Tresha Thorsen

Robert - I have not read all 416 comments so if this was asked and you answered forgive me. What was the all of a sudden revelation that caused you to reverse stance on Twitter Followers? - Jeff Vreeland

It's difficult to maintain and filter a list on all the social networking sites. I cannot even imagine maintaining the kinds of lists you must deal with, Robert. - Jeremy Brooks

Dude, you broke Twitter! When you unfollowed all of your 100,000 the other day you pulled the rug right out from under it, so it fell down and now it can't reach its beer. :-) - Robert Morrison

Actually I felt rather sad being fav'ed by you on FriendFeed then dumped.. But again. I get more from you from FriendFeed, so oh well, stop talking about Following and Get on more with Tech! :P - Du Senyao Peter

Me Me! lol! - Bill McGehee

i like the idea of importing favorite tweets into friendfeed. i haven't used that favorite feature much because i haven't seen any real use in it. thanks! - Jonathan Blundell

When twitter is down I always wish I could tweet: checkout friendfeed. Nevertheless, how will following folk that leave a message here really improve the quality of your input? While I don't want to judge many of the fine folk on this thread, are they all that interesting? In other words, isn't this the start of the same problem you had on Twitter... - Jon Mountjoy

what like here? this is a comment :) - michelle harris

Barak - isn't filtering just unfollowing while pretending you're still following? ;) - Matthew Blaisdell

Well to bounce back on your Twitter is down comment I think it is time to watch this video again http://www.youtube.com/watch... Hilarious! - 77Agency

Robert, I'm glad you decided to stop auto-follow (finally). :) - Veronica Sopher

I'm in - Jeroen Sangers from Nambu

works for mw - Brendan Jackson from twhirl

Robert, but why clutter your FriendFeed stream? This comment is not to get you to courtesy follow me on FriendFeed, think you've established you've changed your thinking. :) - L.P. NEENZ FALEAFINE

OK, I have enough people to follow so I will close the comments on this thread. Thank you everyone, I will try to get to everyone today. - Robert Scoble

Mark Davidson

Another GIS for "FriendFeed you're doing it right".

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That remains one of my favorite LOLCats ever. - Spidra Webster

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hehe - Alejandro

spidra, which is? - Caroline

The one posted above our comments. - Spidra Webster

haha' - Caroline

haha look at the grey's face! haha - Özgür D. Cyric

Caroline - The funny thing is, they look like Poopypants and Butternuts! Is this what goes on every time we leave the house? - Mark Davidson

Ozgar yea! totally like GTFO!! lol - Caroline

Poopypants and Butternuts? *shakes head* - Michael W. May

Michael - I'll post photos. :-) - Mark Davidson

Yah, but which one is Scoble? ;) - CAJ, somewhere else

this one is a classic, love it :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Facebook cat is not amused :) - Brian Wallace

Curtis, I'm guessing that Scoble is the one on the left. :-) - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

Awesome! - David Cook

Teeg

Teeg feels like she could sleep for a week. What is it about this time of day that always leaves me feeling exhausted?

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coffee time! - Brian Wallace

Guy Kawasaki

This is literally the first time I've used FF

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no way!!!! - sean andersen

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Real Time! - Stephen Pickering

What took you so long? - Robert Scoble from iPhone

That's just wrong. - Michael McKean

Once you try, its hard to see the web any other way. - sean andersen

Twitter is so dead! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Best App on the web I think - Stephen Pickering

Will your ghost writers try it too? ;-) - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Zing! - Michael McKean

Grins.. - BairdWilliamson

LOL. Aloha! - Josh Haley from iPhone

Which browser do you normally use? :-) - Todd Hoff

It's about frickin' time, Guy! You're the guy who handed Steve Balmer a Macbook Air as a symbol of good design and yet you've been using Twitter all this time? Either start using friendfeed or switch to using Dells. You can't have it both ways. :) - Alex Scoble

You missed out on the earlier days of FriendFeed, but then it's never too late to start using it. - imabonehead

I don't think Guy understands he can write comments to his posts, instead of new posts to conversate - Stephen Pickering

Welcome, we arent experts here but we manage to muddle through some how - Robert Higgins

Alex: Can I get a Dell through you? - Guy Kawasaki

Welcome! - Jason Huebel

If you need help, just ask. I'm a Social Media Expert! - Glen Campbell, B.A.

Guy you just can't resist that Windows 7 can you :-) - Stephen Pickering

LOL, Guy, I've helped many a person get a Dell. :) - Alex Scoble

Oh and welcome...and now I'm going to faint...Guy Kawasaki commented on my comment on friendfeed. - Alex Scoble

I'm a social media expert, too. Like Glen. Honest. - Brett Kelly from iPhone

It's just the heat Alex :-) - Todd Hoff

Alex, YFTE: you faint too easily - Guy Kawasaki

Ah now he's gettin the hang of it ;) - BairdWilliamson

Guy, it must be the heat. ;) - Alex Scoble

Hi Guy welcome :-)) - Johni Fisher

Howdy - Rodfather

I have always wondered why a social media guru type like you would be solely on Twitter. FF offers a lot. - Stu Rich

About time! - Chris Spizzirri

Welcome. Twitter's for Quitters. Its FriendFeed indeed. Ok, I've embarrassed myself enough now. :) - Her Lindsay-ness

Welcome to the world of Mobs - Michael_techie

brinnnnnng it sugar!! - sofarsoShawn

Seriously? I thought you would have been lurking over here the whole time! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

As a wise FFer once said, "Welcome to the Wild Wild West" - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

hi guy - sean percival

nice work... don't know if you really need it? - Jeffrey T. Sooey

Just had to comment on Guy's first FriendFeed-originated post. I'm so excited! (yet not as excited as Alex it would seem) - Jesse Stay

Welcome, sir. - Louis Gray

Hello and welcome to FF :) - WorldofHiglet

nice to see you post here. - tomit

Welcome, indeed - Brett Kelly

welcome on board. i expect your feedback / analyse in a few weeks :-9 - Laurent65

Welcome, Guy! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Get it on! FF is just great, even for using it as a Twitter-app. - Kolja from Viigo

I use Both Twitter and FriendFeed and I'm happy with it. - Svartling from iPhone

Really! I thought you invented it ;) - Bulent Keles

Friendfeed consolidates most all of the other social networks into one feed and then echos it out to twitter also, for the masses. FF is a well developed web app! The bookmarklet and web widgets work very well. - Keith Rowland

Enjoy the ride, pun intended! - Toby Graham from iPhone

and? - Patrick Ostertag

u like it? - Alemsah Ozturk

@ahsan you surely mean Wild Wide Web ;-) - Yann Leroux from iPhone

welcome Guy. I hope you use it frequently. It will be nice to see you around here. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

@Yann, that too ;) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

at last... welcome Guy :) - Goktug Gedik

well welcome to friendfeed Guy! - (jeff)isageek

Yes Welcome Guy, it's a good thing! - Allen Harkleroad

After twitter of course again Guy :) welcome :) waiting for your great comments and sharings :) - Taylan Demirkaya

How do you like it? - Randy Allen Bishop

collectors item.. :-) - John Serra

And that sums up FF"s problem: you can have a presence on it without ever being actually present. - Ian Betteridge

but being present w/o watching/reading along to see comments makes it kind of a waste - Susan Reynolds from twhirl

This is literally the first time I've read a post by Guy Kawasaki made directly on friendfeed. - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane

Most excellent, welcome. Literally. - DGentry

and it's about time.....! :) - Charlie Anzman

wait, so this whole time the alltop twitterati were chosen by...who? - David

I really didn't notice much because your twitter feed is included on my FF list - so its like you were already a FF user. - Chris Jackson

Welcome! Check out ways to sync content here back to Twitter (bookmarks, google reader, etc) but also network in here :-) - Courtney Engle from iPhone

Welcome Guy. Hope to see more from you in FF.. - Murat Buyurgan from iPhone

Welcome aboard! - funkyboy from iPhone

Welcome. Let's knock of twitter ! - Krishnamoorthy

Welcome to the feeding frenzy! Just wait till you discover Micah's great tools. :-D http://friendfeed.com/ffhacks - April Russo (app103)

congrats Guy! I think you'll like it :) - Glenn Hilton

This is """literally""" the first time I commented on your feed. As always, welcome to new users such as yourself. Self + for my improper use of air qoutes. - Eric @ CS Techcast from iPod

Welcome. - Pete Delucchi from iPhone

as you can see, it is comment oriented. We expect you to read comments and reply. - denizoktar

Welcome!!! Big hugs for u!!!! <3 - Magdalena Day

Aloha! - Lisa Duhamel

that's funny. - DanielthePoet

Glad you have you on FF. Welcome! - Chris Gardner

Welcome, Guy- make sure to leave the door open behind you, there's a nice breeze!... - Thom Kennon

Guy has anyone told you you look like Jet Li. Do you do any wushu by any chance ? :P - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

welcome to the dark side. we have conversations here ;) - BEX

Where have you been? Great service here, hope to see you around more. - jcunwired

No turning back now. The only question is what took so long? - Jim Goldstein from iPhone

WOW! welcome dude! - Jason Pollock

you are going to love it here! watch out! Its great to have u here! - Jason Pollock

Welcome, you'll have a lot of work to do setting things up but once you do you will realize it is an awesome tool! - Brian

Yeah, FF rocks! - Janice

Welcome Guy! Please introduce yourself. j/k - AJ Batac

Welcome aboard. Enjoy your new status (AKA: Friendfeeder). - Nir Ben Yona

Finally :) - Ozkan Altuner

Guess you passed the 'new adopters' torch. Welcome to the jungle~ - Liza

woohoooo! stick around :) - Frankie Warren

Guy, at least you don't have someone posting for you like other "celebrities" ;-) Good on you sir! - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

@Guy - welcome! FF is a great place to follow discussions and threads. - Valeria Maltoni

welcome to FriendFeed Guy! - MB Linder

Welcome :) - Fatih Küçükbaltacı

It can be crazy at first but it's more robust than something like Twitter IMO - David LaMorte

The water's fine, come on in ;) - Clare Dibble

Welcome Guy... - Mitchell Tsai

Welcome. Add some more stuff to your feed so we can really get to know you. - Amani

I beg to differ: http://friendfeed.com/guykawa... - Edward Zwart

Except Ed, it was via the bookmarklet, not directly into ff like this one... - Janice

congratulations! - Steve Borgman

welcome on board :) - Muge Cerman

welcome to 2009 ;) - Lee

Welcome aboard! FF rocks! - dhamza

Dive in, the water is churning! - LauraLee Dooley

Welcome to the party Mr. Kawasaki. - David Damore

Bit late in the day aint ya? :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Guy, are you paying someone to write this for you? - Joe

lmao @ J Deakins. :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Better late than never! - Donna Payne

A marketing master - cool ; ) - Mark Harai

welcome - Jeremiah Owyang

Come on in, the water is fine! - Sean Powell

Howdy! - Jesse P. Luna

Welcome - Peter Kelley

Welcome Guy - Jose Luis Santos

I think you'll like it, Guy. Just stay away from that Robert Scoble character and you'll be fine ;) - dougcoleman

ようこそ、FFへ。コメントしないと！と思いまして、コメントしました。 - Carloe Stamp

Welcome aboard. - Richard Leiter from iPhone

Invading FF now are ya? It is obvious everyone is excited about your entrance. Love ya on Twitter! - Brady

This was so 20 hours ago, I'm no longer excited. - Geoff Schultz

I only hope this results in something positive. Welcome, etc. - Evil Librarian

Great More EGO's here - johnpiercy

Interaction is good! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

@Janice oic - Edward Zwart

It's about time! :P - Joel Lovato

Meh. ya rookie! - Robert Kenney

me too.. don't know what i'm doing. - leslie mills

about damn time - Brian Appleby

let the addiction begin - Monique

twitter not enough visuals and too much clicking , i love ff! - Wsvdesign

Funny thread and yes I read it! - Myrna

Poor Myrna must be bored everyone pile into her feed and entertain her! - Geoff Schultz

I'm listening to Howard Dean and Bill Frist discuss Healthcare on Charlie Rose after hearing John Bolton on Jon Stewart destroy my mood about Iran, nuclear and WW3 - Myrna

War is soooooo 20th century. They need to get with it. - Geoff Schultz

You know there are always laggards. - Myrna

you'll get addict'd - Goktug Oguz

Don't worry Guy - you can spam links in here too :) haha, I mean welcome to Friendfeed :) - Brian Wallace

Welcome! - Fer Isella

Next you're going to tell us that you switched to Mac last month - adam garrett

about time...welcome to FF! - Freddie Benjamin

Welcome here, maybe it takes people like you to bring the finesse of FriendFeed to the world! (can't let @scobleizer do all the work on his own, can you?) - Ruud van Wijngaarden

now figure a way to have my friendfeed autopost alltop content, maestro! - adam garrett

I was slow too :-) - Marco Raaphorst

hi! who are you? - Terry O'Fee from BuddyFeed

welcome - Jacob

logically that's impossible, because i follow you on FF for quite a while now. - adam garrett

@llort threadkill, not directly on FF, over twitter or somthing else - Muge Cerman

congrats :D - Ezgi Ceren I.

have you ever tried siberalem.com ? :) - Yalcin Parmaksiz

That is classic! I actually just got started a little over a week ago myself. - Chris Denker

I'm with ya.... just started this afternoon. So far, so good. :) - Ben Daugherty

late to the conversation, but I do notice that this appearance by Guy was only a cameo *sigh* - Susan Beebe

What take you so long ? - TiTi

Rochelle

Let me tell you about how I love Amazon. I placed my order with Amazon Fresh for groceries last night at about 9:45PM. I woke up at 5:00AM to find all of my groceries on my porch. Awesome.

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When we lived in St. Paul, we occasionally used Simon Delivers and loved it, especially in the winter. - Heather Solos

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Sounds good. Do they ask you to return the plastic shipping containers, out of interest? Or do you get to keep them for storing other stuff? - Tyson Key

Do you return the plastic crates or get to keep them? - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

Tyson and pea, you have a choice of either having them come back within 48 hours to pick them up, or you keeping them until your next order (and doing whatever you want with them in the meantime) at which time they swap them out with your new items. I have them come pick them up since we don't have much storage space or use for them. - Rochelle

awesome service..... - Akash Sharma

Nice...do you live out in the boondocks or in the 'burbs? - Joel Robert Perez

Joel, about 10 minutes from downtown Seattle proper, so not quite suburbs but certainly not right downtown. Amazon Fresh does deliver to the suburbs, though. - Rochelle

Nice, thank you Rochelle. Something to think about...should have thought about it more when Celeste was born. That would have stopped all of the "going to WalMart in 3 in the morning" trips for food and other things. - Joel Robert Perez

There are also other two major grocery stores (Albertsons and Safeway) that deliver here, plus a few smaller organic grocery services. It keeps good competition between the services which means lots of discounts and promos for customers! - Rochelle

Booo! That's only available in Seattle. :P - Internet's Tad

Move to Seattle! :) Not only do they bring groceries, but they also bring anything Amazon.com has. My friend ordered some fruit and a Drobo. :) - Rochelle

Amazing. - Kandeezie

wow! - Joe

They do rock - Sean Oliver

That's awesome! - AJ Batac

Wish they covered Austin. Signed up to be informed when they do reach here. - Patrick Jordan

nice! - TheHenry

OMG Amazon food this is going to be HUGE - Thomas Power

I wish that was available here. We really liked webvan when they were around. - Jeremy Brooks

Need to check for that around where I am. - Amani

Since I live in a town that takes 15 minutes to drive from one end to the other of, with all lights against you, I am asking this out of sheer curiosity: What does ordering groceries from the internet accomplish? Would it take too long to get to your local food store otherwise? - Miss Elle

Elle, with an infant, it's a whole lot easier for me to order online than take her to the store. It also saves on my expenses for car fuel and use. Many friends of mine who don't have cars order groceries online because it's easier than hauling groceries on the back of a bicycle. There are a lot of people here in Seattle who don't have cars. - Rochelle

Miss Elle, I live in a city and don't have a car so online grocery ordering helps when I have to shop in bulk and can't carry heavy items. Although I'm a picky shopper and like to browse. One time I accidently ordered 4 pounds of garlic instead if 4 bulbs. It was a lot of garlic. - Jason from iPhone

Ah thanks guys. I hadn't thought about the whole infant angle (I can sooooo see that one, what a relief it must be) and the no cars angle. I guess I'm spoiled that I can walk to the market and do my shopping daily and it all fits in one reusable tote. On the other hand, you big city folks can actually find things to do after 6 pm. - Miss Elle

Is this just the case in Seattle? Anyone in SF getting quick deliveries like this? - Berk D. Demir

I wish I lived in a country where stuff on your porch stayed there... - Marlin Forbes

Oh man. Yet another reason Seattle will remain at the top of my "if I had a choice about where to live" list. Grocery delivery sounds like a dream compared to having to drive 90 miles to get decent groceries like we do now. - Renee from iPhone

Allen Stern

yo yo and a new site launch this afternoon yo

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let us know when it's up - Brian Wallace

ok - Allen Stern

Zee. to Zee.'s feed, TheNextWeb Forum, Appetite

New Feature: Facebook now offers way to share stuff with everyone or just a specific list. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...

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this is actually pretty damn cool... - Zee.

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smart move - Dobromir Hadzhiev

love this - have to get in and play around with it - Stefanie Hahn

"Copying Friendfeed... Please wait." - Jérôme Flipo

funny you should say that Caleb http://thenextweb.com/2009... - Zee.

ha ha facebook vs ff .same features in same time:) - Samir Kerimov

yeah Samir, not identical but very similar and ridiculously close in time... :) - Zee.

Fantastic! Now when I say less than flattering things about work, my coworkers won't see it. Thank you Facebook, you have cut down significantly on office drama. - Miss Elle

love it - stanleyyork

cool - Mike Montano

I also noticed today that on my Facebook wall a popup saying that there was new data for the wall and I could update without refreshing - similar to what we see on Twitter search. They are both getting closet to real time. - Robert Freeze

I keep refreshing hoping to see this, the custom seems like it could be especially useful. - Michael Turner

That's an old Pownce feature. Frienfeed doesn't support posting to a pre-defined list; you'd either have to DM them all at once, or get them to join a room. - Vezquex: God of FF

I kept waiting and waiting and it never showed up. Turns out you need set Publisher Control Default to Everyone...then it shows up. Of course now that I've done it, I'm not seeing a way to actually search statuses. Seems somewhat pointless...at least for the moment. - Michael Turner

LiveJournal friends filtering arrives.... oh wait. :) - Jay Cuthrell

Allen Stern

im gonna start putting up retweet/link bait articles on CN and call them from "author to be named later"

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Marshall Kirkpatrick

Greasemonkey script replaces ad space on Twitter with a live clock http://userscripts.org/scripts...

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FriendfeedOnTwitter

Facebook? Up 10%. Twitter? Up 16%. FriendFeed? Flat http://bit.ly/oUYXy - http://twitter.com/takeyou...

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The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designer http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009...

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Bret Taylor

Spammers Shorten Their URLs - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...

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"MessageLabs, a division of Symantec, said today the presence of shortened URLs in spam has skyrocketed over the past few days and now appears in more than two percent of all spam. The presence of shortened URLs in spam has skyrocketed over the past few days. The company says that the dozens of new URL-shortening services are allowing spammers to evade anti-spam tools that target Web domains known for sending spam. The services also inadvertently help spammers trick Internet users who would normally be wary of domain names like, say, Spammy.ru." - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

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So the obvious question is whether there are tools that interpret the root URL after the shortened one does the redirect. Or is a redirect not necessary? - Mark Jepsen

URL shorteners should provide a 301 redirect to most automated systems, which allows everyone to resolve the URL before serving it. But that's only if they play nice, and spammers do anything but. They could just as easily frame the content (just like the DiggBar et al) to make it especially hard to determine where they redirect to. - Mark Trapp

Those spammers [shakes her head in bemused wonderment] - anna sauce

Mark: if you run an email product, it is pretty difficult to follow every link in every email, 301 or not. - Bret Taylor

Great... I'm starting to think that URL shorteners are more pain than they are worth. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

If following links is too hard, I wonder what the solution will be then: blacklisting of certain URL shorteners, or scoring known URL shorteners higher? That'd be a pretty good reason to stop using them altogether. I guess it'd be pretty trivial to have a dozen more shorteners pop up for every one blacklisted, though. - Mark Trapp

I run http://hex.io and we screen all submissions against the surbl lists http://www.surbl.org/ i suspect others will follow suit if they haven't already. - Bob Stewart

Bret- what do you mean as an email product? ESP or a transactional email system in your software/web site? - anna sauce

Yet another reason url shorteners are the work of the devil. Seriously, we need another way for links to break like we need a hole in our collective head. And I have a hard time seeing twitter enabling as a good thing either :) - Joel Webber

anna: I mean if you are Gmail, you receive billions of emails a day, and following all of those links is practically infeasible (and has privacy implications) - Bret Taylor

wow, what a messy problem to solve... yikes - Susan Beebe

This URL shortener works pretty well: <a href="http://thisisaverylongurlwithl...">short</a>. - Jason Wehmhoener

Jason: Can you get that to work properly in a posting to Twitter? - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Rishabh: I can't but twitter certainly could if they could be bothered to do so. (notice how Friendfeed handles it? seems to work!) - Jason Wehmhoener

Jason: So let's say I use Twitter through the text messaging service. I have a limit of 160 characters. How do I get the long URL to show up as a short URL? How do I receive long URLs that don't hog up the space? - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

There are two use cases, really: typing a long URL into a text message and sending it out to Twitter, in which case I really wonder how many people are actually typing in URLs; long, short, or otherwise; when they're texting. The other use case would be receiving URLs via text (so, someone tweeted a URL that you want to see from a text message). In that case, Twitter could set up their... more... - Mark Trapp

SMS wasn't designed for URLs. Fortunately we have other ways of sending messages now on phones that are likely to have modern browsers. - Jason Wehmhoener

How can this problem be resolved? The amount of spam is rising daily. Is there a way to filter? TRENDS: Twitter Needs Spam Filter, http://hubpages.com/t/98819 - Debby Bruck

Let spam detectors be aware of URL shortening services so that they can detect the blacklisted ones the same way they had been doing it before. Identi.ca expands short URLs - so other programs will be able to do it too. Should there be a Spamassassin plugin for that ? - Jean-Marc Liotier

Mark Laymon

Social Media is Not Dead. It’s Run by Cats. - http://collective-thoughts.com/2009...

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Alfredo

Physics WIN - http://twitpic.com/508qo

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awesome - Alfredo

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I want to do that on my exercise balls. - Anika

How many tries (and broken bones) did that take? - Johnny Worthington

Homygorsh - Martha

First animated gif that didn't make me cringe or want to hide it. cool. :) also, i won't be trying that on my exercise ball anytime soon. - ♥patricia♥

I just don't know how you figure out you can do that. - CAJ, somewhere else

I'm sure if I tried it I would be in traction right now. - Kevin Pedraja

Really Awsome! - Piero Tagliapietra

Amazing .. - johnpiercy

süper :) - Göksel Şirin

O_o - Bluesun 2600

THAT IS CRAZY AWESOME! - Chieze Okoye

wow. gotta reshare that! - Ňicķ

very cool...perfect landing too - Jeffrey Marsh

Are you serious? No way! - Andrew Trinh

I seriously just bought one of these today. but I'm with pea♥ fierce as a woozle. no attempts for me. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

wow that is sweet - (jeff)isageek

Dude! - BEX

Usually stomping on balls makes me uncomfortable, but this is pretty awesome. - Phronk

I expect this move to be all the rage in Rhythmic Gymnastics in the next Olympics. - Jeanine W.

Very impressive :0 - Adval

boy, if you messed that up it could really put a damper on your day. Some doof needs to try it and put up their fail-flip on youtube. Absolutely amazing, though. - Rick Cogley

totally awesome!!! wow! how fun! - Susan Beebe

Was waiting for the neck snapping moment....was pleasantly surprised - Toby Graham

If I taught Physics, I'd show this to my students for open discussion - Bwana ☠

wow - Gökmen Karasu

wtf :)) - Batu

Thought he was going to munch it, clearly, he's not human. - Will Higgins™

How many times did he try that until he got it right? - Louis Gray

Not sure how many - but my guess would be that this guy is a competitive gymnast (based on the body and the setting) - things like this often come easy (when you have trained for a dozen years to develop muscle, balance and body awareness), - Brian Sullivan

holy wow - Mattb4rd

easy? If you're Jesus maybe. - Mattb4rd

Haha thats awesome! - Nicholas James

I would love to see the out takes on this - Josh Haley

I really would like to try it - Marcello Del Bono

Otherwise known as the orthopedist's full employment act. - Tom Landini

win - Jeremiah Owyang

ZZZOMG! That is such a PHYSICS WIN. A new way to use an exercise ball! - Sean

It was amazing when he did it once, but how does he do it non-stop over and over? I lost count already. - Josh Haley

yeah and how does he teleport back to where he started? - Alfredo

bah to science, +many for physical fitness, :O - chaz2b

hogeeee! fugeee! fugaaa! - Ken Okabe

WOW! Even I am impressed. - Shawn Whitmire

I can't get enough of this. Of course it should carry the "don't try this at home disclaimer". I'm sure they could run a whole episode of Amerca's Funniest Home Videos of people trying to do this. - Mark Krynsky

Awesome ! - DAL

wow - orionstarr

Is it possible that there are some hidden cables here? His form seems too perfect as his feet swing around at the end. - Brian Sloane

nope. no cables - Alfredo

Youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Andrew C

nice. - Alfredo

I'd like to see the blooper reel - Abbas Haider Ali

i wanna try, it's awesome! - tibetsong

I am going to try this next time I go to the gym wish me luck heha. - Jason

Next time I 'm at the gym, I'm gonna give this a try! :) - burdr

burdr, did you try it out?? 8^) - Chieze Okoye

The sequel: http://friendfeed.com/nathanc... - Nathan Chase

This thread was discussed on the FFundercats (http://www.ffundercats.com/2009...) - Josh Haley

#awesomesauce - Alfredo

Damn, that guy knows his arse from his angular momentum. - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane

BTW no longer on YouTube. Bummer. - Jill Hurst-Wahl

AmyVernon

oops? California to start issuing IOUs to gram & gramps: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009...

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Good advice: Staying Productive When You're Working From Home http://www.dumblittleman.com/2009.... Anyone have more tips?

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Putting knowledge into Twitter makes me sad because it is almost impossible to pull it out again in future.

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But it's real time! Once you've put the knowledge in there, it's already old. - Andy Bakun

It needs to be indexed and achieved - Chris Duffy

Ya, It's like the email of 2009 in that sense. - Malcolm Bastien

Andy: OK, quick, find me all the tweets that replied to my netbook question - Robert Scoble

Robert: that was sarcasm. - Andy Bakun

FriendFeed is infinitely better, and I want to thank you, Scoble, for introducing me to it. Unfortunately, I still find myself opening Facebook from time to time, as I cannot seem to integrate that into FriendFeed properly :( - Carlton Prest

I know that's impossible. Which is why people should use friendfeed instead. Friendfeed: where search actually works. - Andy Bakun

Carlton: that's a problem with facebook's platform. - Andy Bakun

Once FF integrates better with blogging systems - then we'll see a greater adoption. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Jonathan: yes. In FriendFeed knowledge is bundled together and can be found in the future. - Robert Scoble

Does anyone know if all your Tweets are archived forever? Do they ever expire? - Ideas At Random

Under what circumstanced is Twitter a good knowledge-base? - Amit Morson

Twitter archives your tweets: if you delete them, it takes like 3 weeks for them to disappear out of search. - Andy Bakun

but twitter do not need to offer this - thousands of apps already exist to pull out the knowledge you want it. e.g. find what links you posted -> http://tweetmeme.com/user... - Nick Halstead

Ideas: My early Tweets are not indexed. You can't find early Tweets from the Chinese earthquake, for instance. Are they saved? Probably, but since they aren't indexed in Twitter search it doesn't matter. - Robert Scoble

Nick: bullshit. Find everyone who responded to my Netbook question over on Twitter. Some responded without using my name. - Robert Scoble

What's interesting about this challenge is that since twitter's search ability is what's being questioned, there's really no way to verify that _everything_ could be found, because there's no external, non-twitter copy of all of twitter to see if you could find _everything_ about any given topic. You can't be sure that you found everything. - Andy Bakun

They'll be a search or other app capability that will make getting anything you want out easy in future. The whole world will be (increasingly) organized, and not just via Google. - Alex Hammer

Alex: that's not true. Each Tweet does not have enough metadata to make search easy. This is the #1 reason why I have been pushing FriendFeed so hard. - Robert Scoble

Alex: that's the future. What about now? - Andy Bakun

It's almost impossible to find a tweet. It's only 140 characters of info with no metadata. Each tweet is just not individual enough to find again later. Needles and haystacks... - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

Yep, metadata is the key, and 140 characters is not enough to even store unstructured metadata AND the content itself. - Andy Bakun

Take a gander at http://www.scripting.com/stories... - Mark

Once you shout out the window it is gone... unless you live in a canyon. - Art Witczak

http://twickie.pirillo.com/ - not impossible. - l0ckergn0me

Robert (from FF and copying Twitter): I have heard that Google is planning to launch a search engine for twitts. If so, that could be a very good solution to store, index and retrieve all the knowledge in Twitter. By the way, 140 characters are not that heavy! - Eduardo Loyola

@ Robert Scoble ...Have you tried searching your FF account for your early Tweets, like the Chinese earthquake? - Ideas At Random

Ideas: I have and it is better than Twitter but not perfect. - Robert Scoble

You mean "impossible" as in the rich API with which tons of developers have found tons of ways to interact with Twitter? I'm no dev, but it sounds like it's one of the most accessible services yet. - David Chartier

David: twitter's API can't add the metadata that will make search good. - Robert Scoble

Yeah, Robert is right there. The API just doesn't make search any better. Everything is just too much of the same. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

If you send all your tweets to FriendFeed they are much easier to search and find later. Or use LoudTwitter < http://loudtwitter.com > you can backup your tweets to your blog and archive them. - Chris Loft

Good point. That's why I archive my tweets. It ain't pretty, but it works: http://davestweets.tumblr.com/ - DaveDelaney.ME

I still have a lot of followers on twitter that are not on FF. I see that changing fast, but I have no desire to set up a bunch of "fake" accounts. I wish I could just view twitter users in FF. The way that Steve Rubel uses Gmail, is changing my workflow for sure however... - Robert from email

Those fake accounts sure are a pain in the arse to set up. - Mark

I realized the difference when I googled something and found the answer in a friendfeed thread, not going to get that via twitter. - BCK

Agreed, thats all I will say - polou/indigo_bow

Take heart Mr. Scoble, the next big Twitter is looming nearby, the developers are coding it as we speak..This is the most amazing time for technology, as long as the 'bean-counters' don't kill the innovation.. Respectfully, Nicholas Chase - Nicholas Chase

Workaround for archiving my Twitter conversations. I setup a rss feed based on a search results with my username.(ie http://search.twitter.com/search...) and have the feed in Google Reader. Now I can quickly search my old tweets. Yes, I know it doesn't help find other people's tweets or info. But, with using my Twitter username as the search word, I archive @replies, and any mentions. I started this with Google Reader in January and have access to every tweet I sent and received since then. - Brian

That is real time, man. Why we don't understand: it is not there if it is not happening in real time. - Nitin Nanivadekar

As we are moving towards a real time stream of information, we fail to conserve the value. Twitter Search lists the latest messages on your query and therefore any tweet older than a couple minutes is lost. I would love a time line of the election in Iran from the beginning with coverage of the main events within the election, the most important messages and the leading users. Than, add photo and video footage and Twitter would have real time coverage of events. - Thomas R. Stegelmann

Whatever actual knowledge Twitter has to offer is generated via network effects -it is collective, not Scoble- who along with 'us,' contibute time, presence and input which is sometimes smart + insightful, sometimes off-the-cuff, sometimes emotional + sensational, sometimes (yes, even) frivolous... all of which generates a certain kind of intelligence. And yes, given a specific context, this might pass for knowledge. - Brad Kligerman

I have my twitter home feed imported here as an imaginary friend, just to make searching it easier, so I can restrict the search to my home feed instead of the entire twitterverse. - April Russo (app103)

That's why everyone should pipe their tweets into FriendFeed, even Technosailor Aaron Brazell. All of them are retained, and they're easily searchable. - Hutch Carpenter

What should be added in a search engine to make it more viable? - James Stratford

Maybe you need to stop thinking of Twitter as something you 'put things in' that you later need to 'take out'. If Twitter is not a type of container, what else could it be? I think Twitter is a thought process, a community thought process. It helps you think, it helps you generate new ideas from it's own content. You don't need to take things out, you just need to add your thoughts to it. - Joolio

Robert are you aware of Tweetree? It is like Twitter in HD. http://tweetree.com/garinki... It does a much better job tracking Twitter replies and it will insert videos, entire blog posts, and even the entire ff thread in real-time from any tweets that are made via ff. - Garin Kilpatrick

Garin: Thanks for the link. Great site! Hadn't heard of tweetree before. - Mike Bracco

Mike: You're welcome! Glad you like it :) - Garin Kilpatrick

You should try out http://www.tweets2mail.com then you can search directly from within gmail :) - NerdyHearn

This is the reason why I have Louttwitetr blog all my daily tweets in a blog dedicated to this ;) Same for delicvious links to also share the link-love - oliver gassner

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