Philip Evans

Actually, I agree. We provide Twitter's content, and they have the opportunity to monetize the resulting traffic. It's an exchange of value, which is why I was saying earlier that we "owe" Twitter nothing. That doesn't mean I don't like it, or take the service for granted. - Chris Baskind

@Chris - now THAT is a good way of presenting it. Ok, I'm being swayed :) - Brad McCrorey

Everyone has a limited amount of time here on earth. That "costs" something. You get to decide where you spend your free time, but if you, say, wrote a book instead of Twittering, maybe you'd turn into the next great author. So, your spending time here is an opportunity cost and is one we all are definitely "investing" in. - Robert Scoble

How about using Twitter to research that book and become the next great author. Two birds and all that ;) - Colin Walker

you just read my mind... was just writing something on this. Been getting annoyed all day about people stating it as a "free" service... while I don't use it myself for my job as some, I still don't see it as free. Free if you only count money, but time is just as costly. - Philip Evans via twhirl

I have 15 -20 tabs open in Firefox regularly... I had 25 open *crash* <restore session> YES......augh! - Susan Beebe

4: email, reader, friendfeed, slickdeals - Benjamin Golub

No fair, seeing as I just installed the new Flock beta and gone are my tabs. Usually between 5 and 40. - Matt Harwood

5 at the moment :-) - Andrew Dobrow

3. - Thomas Hawk

normally less than 30. IE7's limit seems to be 62 before issues - Philip Evans via twhirl

@ChrisPatterson - same here... I used Plaxo to synch up a zillion contacts in Outlook... dang! - Susan Beebe

Is there an opt out feature on PLAXO? Oh wait that's FB, crap! - Anthony Farrior

Things just went from bad to worse. - Francine Hardaway via Alert Thingy

Heheh. Because we can. - Robert Scoble

And now, I will. - Soulhuntre via twhirl

http://is.gd/hkp - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Here here! - Mick Liubinskas

We can do both :-) - Andrew Dobrow

Well, I'm replying in both Friendfeed and Twitter at the same time. :) - Morton Fox

ya coz we can.. and we like Friend feed - Vinodh

this comment will show both on friendfeed and on twitter - unless you see it frist on twitter, in which case it will also be on friendfeed - martin english

I comment here because I don't get abused for answering Tweets here. - Robert Scoble

I also comment here because the answers are threaded. I also comment here because I can permalink to a cluster of comments about a single Tweet. I also comment here because people can "hide" this conversation if they don't like it. - Robert Scoble

oh dude, I see this being a blog post by morning! :) - Paula Hawk

Getting a little viral, isn't it? - moby74

I didn't know you could comment on friendfeed. - Jim Vrckovski

FriendFeed works, Twitter is down all the time. Twitter is a platform, FriendFeed utilizes this platform - for me, in the most useful way I've seen so far. (It's web-based, it allows conversations.) - sebmos

I don't put most things on both FriendFeed and Twitter. Why? I keep getting told I'm too noisy on Twitter so I'm using FriendFeed to reduce my noise. In fact, I've just told everyone to come over here instead of continuing this conversation on Twitter. Conversations aren't really good on Twitter. What is? Answering the question "what are you doing?" - Robert Scoble

Agreed with Robert. I really like the parallel nature of the Twitter / Friendfeed symbiosis. - Soulhuntre

This definitely looks like it's going to get viral! - Vinodh

Twitter need to make some sort of threaded comments system. - Richard Cunningham

I've thought of a better way to handle replies. Msaleem's original message is number 812534216, so to reply to reply @msaleem:812534216 which would map onto http://twitter.com/msaleem/sta... which should also be backwards compatible. Then clients could track the replies in a thread - Richard Cunningham

@ Richard Cunningham My first impulsive thought is : Threads would destroy twitter - Metta (Kamath)

ah, but we can do both! :-) - Duncan Riley

because it is another conversation thread that is easier to follow than on twitter and connect to other like minded people. - Rodney Rumford

I would use this more if Twhirl would just give me a sound stating someone replied to me. Also, threads are only one level on FF. Twhirl could technically do the same thing with Twitter - why not? - Jesse Stay via twhirl

Jaiku already has multi-level threaded comments. It's Google's fault that people aren't using it. - Morton Fox

Also, Quotably allows you to thread your replies to any tweet you want. - Morton Fox

You brought this on yourself, you know.... - GerryBot

Twitter is not intended to keep conversations. Let's try to keep what it was born to and then, if the tweet is interesting enough let's move the rest to FF. - Hernan Garcia

I think the biggest poblem is when people are adding comments that add nothing to the situation at all. Or when they are just rambling on and on about the same subject or make REALLY long sentences that clearly show that English is not their main language and that get lost in constructions that are hard to understand and you can clearly see that the commenter did not even take the time to read his own comment to see that it lacks proper structure and grammar. But it's like it's with cliffhangers, they are - Ruud van Wijngaarden

So sick of ppl telling me where to leave my comments. I'm sorry, but I'll comment anywhere I damn well please. Period. Get over it. - Shey

I agree with Shey. Recently, a friend of mine deleted his FriendFeed account specifically to stop me from replying to his stuff from here. - Akiva Moskovitz

See the 'choice' as a plus. It just takes a few seconds to come over here and look? - Charlie Anzman

Because we can't comment on them within twitter. I like the whole idea of comments. I wish I would recieve more comments on my friendfeed! - Cade Brown

Fake up. API is down (for things like Twitterific) but everything else is up - Mark Trapp

Did you visit IsTwitterReallyUpOrFakeUp.com ? - Mike Reynolds

I tried to Mike, but it looks like it's down. I'm about to go to IsIsTwitterReallyUpOrFakeUpDotComReallyUpOrFakeUp.com to confirm this suspicion. - Mark Trapp

Services will go down, whats important is what processes are in place to bring it back up with the least amount of downtime. I missed the friendfeed outage, but it seems they were down for a short time. Thats good in my books. - Adnan

They were down for at least an hour. - Barak B

Its interesting to see that they use nginx as a webserver. - Adnan

bret Taylor goes on vacation and all hell breaks out - Robert Scoble

I had a feeling they weren't going to be down for long, and I was right. are you listening twitter? - rambn

Even when FriendFeed goes down, it's no worse than Twitter. Maybe they need an equivalent to "Something is Technically Wrong" :) - Morton Fox

I think it was 5 hours. I was so bored I started using StumbleUpon - Alejandro S.

How long was Friendfeed down? - Mark Heringer via Alert Thingy

I never even noticed it was down until this post, so it wasn't down very long. Of course Maryam had me off the computer most of the day today, so who knows? - Robert Scoble

The question is... if FriendFeed was down, and neither Robert nor I saw it was down... was it really down? :-) - Louis Gray

Agree w/ Louis... either it was down for a very short amount of time or I have more of a life than I previously thought... - Ross Miller

It was down around 6:00 am Pacific time. Not sure when it came back up. - Ontario Emperor