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It's the conversation. Without a dialogue it's just a massive amount of noise. - Richard A. from twhirl

What is important is who you follow to listen. What happens is people follow you that listen as well. Sometimes it is just follow back but I think that is temporary while we learn. Its like meeting someone for the first time and then deciding whether or not to take it to any next step. Maybe? - Ben Watson from twhirl

I still think it depends why you're on Twitter. Lots of people use it for business, fair enough, I use it for entertainment and to see what's happening around and about, I like a random mix of people, the madder the better in some cases, I find it fascinating, the psychology and pathology of the crowd and the various streams of consciousness. But then that's just me :) - Nicola Quinn

If I had to answer that question, it's "who." Being followed is great, but the people you follow following you back is most gratifying, because you are interested in what they have to say - Doug Haslam from twhirl

Who you follow. I use twitter as a source of information so being followed only tells me that someone finds me interesting. :P - ralphsaunders from twhirl

haha i'm in realtime :D - Mil∂d

Captured forever! :-) - Robert Scoble

Topic should be that the half-life of everything is getting shorter, including attention spans. - Bob Blunk

I think it's called ADD. - Ken Sheppardson

Great video Robert - I completely agree, and is the reason I prefer ff over twitter. Would be very helpful if ff could aggregate all related posts in some way to ensure you can get the whole conversation as well. With more information though, we need better filters. - Alistair (alpinefolk)

You know, what really gets me is how we've come to call anything that happens "News". It's not. When my friend's cat does something stupid, that's not "news". My reaction to a new cell phone isn't "news". - Ken Sheppardson

There are, what, 6Bil people on earth right now? Let's say half of them are asleep, half of those that are awake are bent over in a field somewhere or in a factory where they can't hear the person next to them, that leaves, like, 1Bil people making "news" at any given moment. I'd hate to see what your feed looks like, Robert, once they all have iPhones and microblogging accounts. - Ken Sheppardson

Interesting to note this Twitter post is drawing more conversation than the post exclusive to FF. Also draws in more voices to this thread. - Kevykev

KevyKev: yeah, that is interesting. Especially since this one doesn't have a graphic associated with it. The FriendFeed-to-Twitter feature is definitely bringing people over to FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Good stuff to start off a Monday morning, Robert. It's really amazing how much good information is being produced today, andI think FriendFeed is helping all of us to filter the inevitable noise around it. - Jorge Escobar

Even if we can lengthen the conversation, who is doing that? For example how much time do you spend on current topics vs. older? - Rob McMurtrie

Isn't half-life a personal thing?! depends on how fast you process your feeds. +1 to FF's threads increasing half-life part. - Shivanand Velmurugan

Maybe in their little mind. What island are they living on? - orionstarr

Ya, and war didn't end communism, either. We spent it out of existence. - Kevin Pedraja

Liked purely for Robert's comment. It sums up most of my opinion nicely. - Rob Diana

Rob: I just copied that from the article, I didn't write it. - Robert Scoble

Unfortunately, the phenomenon of bad corporate advertising ruining things is hardly isolated to social media. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Robert, sounded exactly like you though :) - Rob Diana

Many corporations are certainly failing at social media but Web 2.0 is great for consumers. I subscribe via Twitter or install Facebook apps if and only if I'm interested. I can't do that with billboards or the inane 30 second TV advert that gets repeated on every break. Web 2.0 makes me feel empowered. - Andy Murdoch

I work for a company that I'm trying to convince to adopt "Web 2.0"/Social Media practices. They are all gun ho about it - talking about how they are going to invest money into it, etc etc. I bang my head on the desk every time. It's not about money! It's about actually caring - and they don't yet. I feel like I'm giving dating advice to a friend who just takes girls out to nice restaurants and talks about himself the entire date and then wonders why the girl doesn't return the call. BLURGH! - George Smith

Hilarious and sadly insightful - this ties very well to the conversation about value of webapps in the real world. My favorite from the article: One of my favorite adventures in dystopia is when the corporate Twitter feeds talk to one another. Just this morning the Wachovia Twitterer responded to the Starbucks Twitterer. Starbucks had said, "It's possible to make a Vivanno with soy, but... more... - Chris Rogers

Wanted to comment on the blog post but had to fill out a form and give real or fake personal information. Pain in the butt just to leave a comment. I don't remember the last time I actually read ZDnet to be honest. ROI needs to be measured for all sales and marketing activities not just social media. A good real world example of MROI. What's missing is how many deals were closed though. Leads mean nothing if they don't close. - B2B Specialist

btw, Jeremiah - I think it was written by @KyleFlaherty has a guest editorial - posted by Jennifer @mediaphyter - Marcel LeBrun