Depends, but usually around 20 minutes. - Kevin Gamble

Time for you to record another interview with Bret, Steve. - Ken Sheppardson

Seems to be about 30-45 minutes for me. Real time, not. - Karoli from BuddyFeed

the twitter throttled api is the gating factor - if you use a service like hellotxt to update your status it shows up on friendfeed very quickly (and pushes to twitter and facebook etc...) - mike "glemak" dunn

45 min. to 8 hours. - Anika

This morning mine have been delayed about 1 hour. - Aron Michalski

not only a delay, but then the mass dump. I am *this close* to turning off FF over this. I'm totally annoying my twitter buds over the FF dumps and content gets lost. - John Czwartacki

Agreed John. It seems that FF scans all feeds of a person in succession and then dumps 'em all at once. It's really annoying especially on the realtime view. - Tapio Kulmala

I'm very interested in hearing from FF whether they're subject to Twitter's 20K/hr API call limit, whether they've bypassed it by just hitting Twitter from multiple IPs (each with it's own limit), they've found some other way around it, or whether they're a "trusted partner" with an exception. - Ken Sheppardson

@kshep i doubt that they're a 'trusted partner' since it seems to take so long for the tweets to hit FF... i'm still interested though too - Chris Heath

Good point, Chris. I would think they're certainly doing more than 20K API calls per hour. I suppose they could just be circumventing the intent of the limits using multiple IPs and/or accounts for their calls. - Ken Sheppardson

it used to be instant. Who's fault is it that it's not anymore? Twitter's or FriendFeed? - Thomas Hawk

Thomas: I'm sure you could spin it lots of ways. Maybe it's FriendFeed's fault they're not making Twitter comfortable enough to get "trusted partner" access to the push firehose. ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

If they use gnip, there's 30-60 minutes of latency for now, see discussion at http://groups.google.com/group... - Ho John Lee

I think Twitter is being threatened by friendfeed. The two most popular users of friendfeed (Leo and me) were left off of the twitter recommended friends list over on Twitter. - Robert Scoble

I definitely agree with you Scoble, FF is threatening twitter. For me, FF is better and I wonder your ideas on this topic. FF or Twitter? Which one? - Ömer Faruk Kurt

Omer: For Roberts thoughts on that, see any of his last, oh, 100 or so FriendFeed items. ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

I think that can be fixed by a small donation, Robert. - Chris Nixon

Omer: Twitter is simpler and more focused on just one data type. friendfeed is harder to get into, but more useful after you do. friendfeed's technology and algorithms are a lot better thought out. I still am seeing fail whales all the time, friendfeed is never down for me. - Robert Scoble

tweets actually arrive faster to frf - Sasha Kovaliov

Bret writes “The XMPP feed we get from Twitter is about 30 minutes behind. Sorry about the lag for Twitter messages this past week. We are working with Twitter to fix this technical issue.”" http://friendfeed.com/e... - Ken Sheppardson