Welcome... to the real world. - Parth Awasthi

Story, Story and more human story here on #FF. Twitter is getting old for it seems.... - Sampad Swain

thats a perspective, no more, no less - manuscrypts

manuscrypts ....that's always there! but for me I'm finding almost similar kind of stories everyday in twitter..Aarghh! - Sampad Swain

hmmm, a bit of filtering should change that... the 'noise' levels, i agree, is lesser on ff, but thats only because of lesser adoption - manuscrypts

Its broadcast versus conversation. It is bound to be different, do not commit the felony of comparing them. - Parth Awasthi

we all find FF more interesting, but still hang around at twitter. Don't know why. - Roshni

I didn't started it. Curse the tech-bloggers (don't wana name them - u know) who poured it in my mind so badly that I'm made to compare. But true can't really compare a broadcast tool with a conversational medium. - Sampad Swain

but parth, arent both broadcast... on both, conversations arise out of how you use the service.. eg. i share a link on twitter and ff, the conversation could happen in either place.. the design of ff (threaded conversations) make it more conducive, thats all.. - manuscrypts

Roshni - May b the old bug called habit and also coz #FF has a low adoption rate as pointed out by Manuscrypts :) - Sampad Swain

sampad - More randomness on twitter. Brains filter out the noise quite effectively. - Roshni

i dont know.. there's an impromptu, casual, nonchalant spirit about twitter that i can't find on ff.. but maybe that's just me :) - manuscrypts

Manuscrypts: Cant agree with you more on that last point. That's why my spirit still wanders around the Twit-Realm!! - Sampad Swain

@Roshni I am way more active on FF, I like conversations more than Broadcasting/MicroBlogging. @manuscrypts precisely. I don't use Twitter the way you use it. Also, the design of the two systems is radically different as is their approach to Social Net. But again, technologies are seldom aware of their cultural implications. With many, Twitter is a communication medium. - Parth Awasthi

It is also because of the way conversations are displayed in Twitter and FriendFeed. - Sudar

Parth - I agree with you on the conversations part. But I also feel the need to be more civilized, wear pinstripes on FF. I am there on twitter for the chaos. - Roshni

I was super-active on Friendfeed for some time. But topics relevant to things near me are rare here. On Twitter we discuss (with difficulty I admit) desi things and concerns. Here it was mostly virtual things and links and news stories. - vimoh

@Vimoh We can change that trend.... - | Balu |

Also the medium, message and the human interaction has kept Twitter on its foot! Once any one thing screws up..things will be interesting! - Sampad Swain

parth, exactly, at a user level, its just an interface thing.... to give another perspective, FF is a cool twitter client, because it threads my conversations :) - manuscrypts

I believe more people get Twitter because it requires them to deal with only one thing -- that text box on top. Once Friendfeed gets past that barrier and more of us get on it, it will become interesting. - vimoh

Speaking of which, I hope you all are waiting for an http://www.ubervu.com/ invite. - vimoh

@Roshni, because of the same, twitter attracts a younger crowd that is usually more frivolous. If you do an age group analysis you'll find a marked difference. It has obvious impact on content. @vimoh point taken that relevance is subjective. - Parth Awasthi

@vimoh i don't know if that'll ever change, because at its base FF is an aggregator.. i wonder if it can be as simplified as twitter - manuscrypts

Thanks Parth. It is unlikely for me to run into a Delhi-based newsbyte on FF. Perhaps some time in the future. But not now definitely. - vimoh

@manu My point exactly. - vimoh

Didn't hear much about other microblogging tools? May be subconsiously we have take twitter as #1 and for geeky geeks #FF as no. 2 Is that so? So else is stopping you from shifting over from Twitter to #FF? Any other reasons than the above mentioned ones. - Sampad Swain

we are all nuts. Know for a fact that ten days later, we'll be having the same conversation again. - Roshni

Roshni: Is that the last nail to creative coffin of microblogging par se! Then beautiful I must say coz we will definitely have a conversation of same sorts! :P - Sampad Swain

Will be posting this conversation in my blog. Thanks all for your contribution :-) - Sampad Swain

What I have seen is that quite a bit of what I post on Twitter gets commented on in FaceBook.. so there definately is place for a system which allows for replying to individual tweets rather than replying only to the user - Asfaq

Asfaq: Now that's interesting since I've hardly seen something of that sort yet. May be my FB crowd is still to grow in terms of in-touch with techiness! Still the question is what do you want as an individual: Get replied as an user or your tweet? Digging deep the question pertains to influence & popularity if I can say so! - Sampad Swain

I'd rather be replied to on the basis of the tweet. Its easier to keep track of conversations that way. Remeber how quite a few techies moved from Outlook/Thunderbird/Evolution to Gmail just because it helped track email conversations more effectively? - Asfaq

True, can't deny the O-T-E 2 G conversion. But conversation happens in a better way because of #FF's API whereas twitter is more about random thoughts pouring in. Also adoption rate is an issue. - Sampad Swain