duh, the answer is *always* 42 - acedanger

Something like that. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

because twitter has more users and use more resources? - Stalyn☂

Stayly: wrong. Absolutely wrong. Twitter crashed all the time before I even had 1,000 friends. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I think Twitter's model may not be scalable enough....it was fine when the geeks are on it. . .but after the "Oprah" effect everyone from celebrities to the the Tom,Dick and Harry generation....Twitter cannot take it. Correct me if I am wrong, but FF -may- go down that path, but we have yet to see the same number of people jumping on FF like Twitter. Maybe the founders of FF should have an interview with Oprah? - Wei-Yen Tan from IM

Twitter hasn't gotten any new features in almost three years, either while FriendFeed has gotten tons. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

At this point it doesnt matter why FF will never be what it was. the only thing certain is its end. - Stalyn☂

Just being realistic hannahnicklin - Stalyn☂

hannahnicklin: that isn't why I joined Twitter. I liked having a blog that was like IM. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I can't see us here having a conversation about FF by next august. FB don't have time to invest on FF the domain. - Stalyn☂

Prediction: Twitter will be the next Friendster/Altavista/AOL. - Gary

Stayln I disagree. Lots of things are "dead" but still are popular. Hotmail. Delicious. Flickr. Etc. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I guess, after all plurk still around. somehow. - Stalyn☂

So long as they use the Facebook social graph., I'm not sure that they would care. They could use FriendFeed as a premium brand under a larger Facebook umbrella. - Gary

It's all trending. MySpace, AOL, and Friendster are dead, but at least the first two have more users than FriendFeed and maybe even Twitter. - John E. Bredehoft from fftogo

hannahnicklin thats funny - Wei-Yen Tan from IM

I need to know why plurk still alive? - Stalyn☂

Hannah, not everyone will wear blue. Enterprise users will all wear red. Remember that Oracle buys stuff. :) - John E. Bredehoft from fftogo

Because there are less people on Friendfeed. A lot less! - Devon Govett from iPod

Edward http://www.plurk.com - Stalyn☂

The Russian Mafia. - Dean Clark

Dean you fail. - Stalyn☂

When Louis Gray did a panel with Bret Taylor, he talked about how when they were at Google how obsessed they were with page load times. It's built into their DNA. - Stephen Pickering

Twitter was not built to scale. Their infrastructure is not redundant and is not catching up with their growth. FriendFeed has also had the benefit of fewer users, and a smart, experienced team that knows how to build for growth. - Louis Gray

Plurk is more popular than Friendfeed so maybe that's why they are still around? http://trends.google.com/website... - Stephanie

sometimes have to wonder if Twitter has jumped the shark #failshark now that would make an interesting graphic... - George Hall (Australia) from BuddyFeed

Maybe Twitter jumped the shark when the celebrities competed for 1M followers. #failshark - Dennis Jernberg

Devon: totally wrong. Twitter fail whales when it had a lot fewer people on it than FriendFeed does. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Twitter cant manage itself and with out a quick investment soon they will not be able to pay the hosting ,the site is working like shit and they do not care,maybe a deal with Google is done and they just dont publish that - Johni Fisher

A metaphysical question deals with the underlying nature of reality; neither Twitter nor Friendfeed can have a claim to that. - barce from iPhone

FriendFeed +is+ my reality. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Because twitter has been able to capture people's imagination. Friendfeed has/had a much better team/technology/feature set, but one ingredient seem to have been missing. I am not sure why they gave up so early. - Edwin Khodabakchian

So who's going to come up with an actual "fail shark" pic/graphic? - George Hall (Australia)

"fail shark" http://dl.getdropbox.com/u... - April Russo

If anyone else wants to take a crack at it, I found some free, royalty-free shark vectors here: http://www.vectorjungle.com/2009... - April Russo

Mark: 42 - Roberto Bonini