What value do you really get from the people you follow on Twitter?  For me, I get pretty much zero value from my Twitter followings. And the same goes for my followers btw.   Some argue that the real value of Twitter comes not from the number of followers, but from following the right people. To some degree [...] - Peter Efland

FriendFeed is where I read Twitter. - Louis Gray

Ditto Louis but...I have some friends that are still not on FF. Sometimes I just go for a change but twitter's like going to the corner store for a toothpick rather than going out for salmon, broccoli and chocolate mousse.(FF) - Myrna

Hmm, can see Posterous and Wordpress could be more compatible regarding the layout of blog posts sent from Posterous to Wordpress. Sorry about that! - Peter Efland

huh? :) - Myrna

Myrna, in the post I do mention imaginary friends, for Twitter friends not yet on Friendfeed. But except for that my main argument is that what matters on twitter is not who you follow or who follow you, but instead topics of interest which Friendfeed is better at filtering. - Peter Efland

Twitter actually gives me a bit more value then Friendfeed because on Twitter I follow a ton of other graphic designers and most of them post great links to resources and tutorials everyday. I don't get that from Friendfeed. Most of what I get from Friendfeed is just random news and funny stuff. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Yes Peter, I agree about topics totally. Twitter tends to make me a little dizzy if I'm there too long. If I want to see what someone is thinking or saying on twitter about a certain topic I used to go to summize but then its still fragmented and people are just putting their own thoughts without connecting to anyone else's. - Myrna

@Mathew I see what you mean with niches on twitter. But I still think, when I follow people I know have a great knowledge within a topic I am interested in, that most of what they're saying has no interest at all. But yeah, with links I agree, but that could easily be filtered in Friendfeed as well. Of course you would then have to make the work of importing them. - Peter Efland

FF pops up on my desktop, and keeps me informed of what's going on at all times. Also, I can post replies to all my other sites from FF. I also use Twitter Karma to find those followers who are not either following me, and/or, who do not add value to the "discussion". I view all of what I'm doing in my niche, as I would my former High School & College study groups. If you don't add value, bring something to the table and participate, or worse, drain value from the group, then you are gone! - James Artre

Mathew, you could just use the imaginary friends function on FF and then have twitter on FF - Myrna

James, ouch! - Myrna

I do all my filtering with TweetDeck and that is all I need. Your right I could have imaginary friends, but then I can't share all the links I do on Twitter. Twitter and Friendfeed are two separate worlds in my eyes and offer me different things. I don't really want or need to bring them together. That is also why I keep FF and Twitter separate from Facebook, another different world for me on it's own. - Mathew™ one of a kind

@james Artre - sound thorough, but doesn't that take up a lot of time? I will check out Twitter Karma, thanks for the tip. I always try to find the better filters on Friendfeed to automatically give me what I want, without having to sit and fiddle around with it too much. - Peter Efland

@myrna exactly. Its often very hard to find signal on twitter under all the noise. - Peter Efland

what's twitter karma? - Myrna

@myrna, Twitter karma is a site where you after logging in your twitter credentials can see how many of the people you follow is following you back. - Peter Efland

Ok, there are a few jounalists that I follow but their tweets come through on FF. When someone @'s me from twitter, I have seesmic running in the background. - Myrna