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Nope. None of those would explain. - Jay Rosen

It's because they love you Jay! :-) - Dave Winer

Jay: friendfeed's growth has gone up recently because of the new design and new features. But you also are more visible on the system lately because you are participating more. - Robert Scoble

Participation gets me to subscribe to people. Epecially when I find they have a unique viewpoint. - Robert Scoble

Friend-of-Friend feature as more and more people Like and Comment on your stuff here? - Bora Zivkovic

You might be showing up in the 'Find/Invite Friends - Recomended Friends' section for some people. - Ryan Dadey

I guess the Twitter affect helped FriendFeed as well - Gal

I'm guessing it's the Friend-of-a-Friend feature combined with the new real-time layout. Each time someone comments, your posts show up in more streams. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

I transferred all my Twitter follows on who I want to spend more attention to FF! - Stefan Leitner-Sidl

A combination of: The company you keep, The level of participation, The amount that your participation is Liked/Commented (and thus seen in FoaF), Being easy to google helps as well. Also the well noted Scoble Effect. (I found you when Robert liked something of yours, and googled you) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Thanks, all. Is Friend of a Friend new? Is there something new interface with Twitter? Those seem to me possible reasons. - Jay Rosen

I made the same observation yesterday, it is much more than a coincidence. - Rick Bucich

My - and, I guess, other people's too - way of using FF has changed since the beta and now main revamp. The real-time and FoaF combination means I see more; it's not reliant on me hitting F5; the stream is constantly refreshing and things like this very conversation are so much more visible. Subsequently, I find I like more, comment more, and subscribe more now and some of that comes back my way too. That didn't happen to this extent before the revamp. - Mark H

Yes, people suddenly seem to be finding me on FF, which is cool. It also motivates me to post more here. - amygeek

Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect are making it super simple to join. - Peter Warnock

Threaded conversations. It's huge. Case in point: this exchange. It'd never happen on Twitter. (Thread-within-threads would be nice too.) ... I'd tried to use FF a few times in the past, but it felt impenetrable. Not anymore. Maybe it's the new design. Or maybe it's the desire to avoid the headaches induced by the staccato chirping elsewhere. This is a saner & more interesting place to be. - Alan Mairson

How fast is fast? Is it atypical? Or is it merely subjective? I'm not a friend fiend, so getting new subscribers doesn't mean anything to me. I sat with an open account for a year with very little change. Since interacting there have been a few per day. In other words there is a directo correlation between my interaction and additional follows. - Sheryl

Twitter poster I follow has the same question: http://twitter.com/suzanne... Clearly, something is working. - Jay Rosen

I have also noticed more twitter followers joining friendfeed since the beta release. I recall suggesting on twitter "follow me on friendfeed" many times before the beta release, with few takers. When I started posting that with the beta link, there were many many more takers. I suspect that will increase even more posting the regular friendfeed.com link now with the new interface. There are also more of us posting "Conversation over here" tweets. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Same thing is happening for me. It's a mystery. - Melissa

There was a good profile in RWW. That's what I'm thinking. - Paul B. Walker

Robert - PeopleBrowsr rocks, thanks for sharing it with us 1st here on FF ! - Susan Beebe

Is it cool to give up your password to the parade of SM aggregators? - Michael Markman

cool! - catepol

what do you think of #PeopleBrowsr? - Susan Beebe

Too early to tell. It's making my MBP fans work. It's going to take me a while to work out how to use it properly. What do you think of it? - jjprojects from PeopleBrowsr

UIX is complicated, but I like some of the features presented. Initially, it sorta reminded me of tweetdeck, but with different features. The core value I see is the ability to immediately pull up anyone's profile and see all their shared socnets in a nifty interface, etc ... very cool (needs more on-screen user assistance /helpful text). I need to spend more time with it. When Scoble introduced it, the site slowed down due to overwhelming traffic (Scoble affect!) - Susan Beebe