I think part of the reason must be: the discussion is so much easier to follow, here - Phil Crissman

and when you post you're fairly certain it's going to show up :) - John Duff

I'm definitely becoming a huge FriendFeed fan, but not everyone is here, so I think Twitter will remain essential. Plus, how complex would FriendFeed have to get to be configurable to the point where I could get chat or IM updates for only certain kinds of feeds for only certain users (and be able to reply appropriately) and have that tie in with my hiding filters? - LogEx

Interesting, so you want to get friendfeed through IM and be able to interact with the posts (replies or comments) with IM as well? You can already configure things so you're only getting posts you want from each user, the api respects those choices (afik). So building an IM bot for friendfeed is what you want to do, Jabber based IM probably wouldn't be too hard to get the feed. Difficult part would be posting a comment to a friendfeed post. Very cool idea. - John Duff

@John -- there already is a bot to do most of this, the Mojipage bot. - Trent Olson

And then of course SMS is the next step (but as we dumb down to more compact protocols, usability decreases). Or maybe SMS will be so 2007 when the iPhone supports chat native ;-) - LogEx

I'm not into FF nor Plurk, yet, but it seems like they offer an easier way to thread conversations that twitter doesn't have. - Mario Sundar

@Mario...I'd recommend spending some time with ff, but steering clear of Plurk - Trent Olson

I am liking the comments threading on Friend Feed, but it feels like conversations get lost somehow too. - John F Morton

I've noticed that, despite having 500 followers on Twitter, no-one responds to anything I say!! But here on Friendfeed, I get instant replies - and quality replies (which is important). Twitter has too much noise. - Mark O'Neill

I think that FriendFeed and Twitter were both built for different purposes. A lot of people use Twitter so they can keep in touch with friends. On FriendFeed, I think it's more of a website where you share and discuss content. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I think yesterdays coverage of WWDC here on FF pretty much rubber stamped FF's position, no? - Roberto Bonini

ff feels like a mashup of pownce functionality with the benefit of aggregating lots of other streams. I think it misses some of the conversation with the cloud aspects of twitter. As for everyone not being here - that's part of the reason there is more response, you can actually notice when someone says something not just watch the stream go by in a blur. - Phillip J. Zannini from twhirl

I would rather not use FF messages for Twitter-like statuses. If I stick to Twitter for status messages, then other FF users can choose to block those if they want. - Morton Fox

@John - The Mojipage Bot allows you to select noise level, enter different discuss rooms and posting to FF.The Mojipage widget also have the 'like' and 'comment' feature for posting FF too! For more informations you can go to http://mojipage.com/pages/bot/ - Aelvin Han

Steve - discussions are much easier to follow and come back to later on on FF; its one major reason why I'm becoming a more dedicated FF user - Ron Emrick from Alert Thingy

100% agree. Twitter represents a great initial idea that resulted in an effective one-way loop. FriendFeed is poised to be the fruition of the RESPONSE to all those posted thoughts. An actual discussion. A true loop. Potentially also FF might just be a service to corner the market on all web discussion. Jus' sayin. - Steve Isaacs

I was a late joiner to twitter- fellow marketer turned me onto it, and I enjoyed it, but never got the large discussions that happened here *immediately*- and realy enjoy the filtering and weighting that goes on. - anna sauce

FF definitely has more info and less extraneous stuff. Information content vs chatter. - Robin Whitson

I'm pulling for FF to do well, but I've spent time on twitter and I know the people there. hard to leave it. - Rob Williams

Like Morton, I'm still inclined to post status messages to ff from another source so they can be parsed/blocked, but I'm trying out gTalk to replace tweets. Thinking the only con to doing that is twitter habits I can quickly get over. - Dan Covington

The signal-to-noise ratio at FF is heaps higher than Twitter, and it is a good balance between having temporal conversations (late-breaking news, etc.) vs. information worth archiving.. - Wil

We need to start FriendFeed meetups now to take the place of TUB meetups :-) - Duncan Riley

agree - Max Niederhofer

agree - and it's the threading, searching, flexibility that makes FF a winner for me - Anthony Citrano

out of interest steve, what client do you use for FF? still finding alertthingy too chatty on the UI side - steve clayton from twhirl

@Scott I have 3200 following me here and another 1500 via RSS. On Twitter I have north of 7000 followers. So you are right this is an issue. One possible idea is to run the whole lifestream or just the FF portion (http://friendfeed.com/steveru...) through Twitterfeed. That way people can follow my stuff there if they want to. - Steve Rubel

I understand what you're saying, Steve, but I still think FF needs an easier interface. Checking the website all the time is a drag. - Ed Healy

@Ed RSS! - Steve Rubel

That's interesting. The comment threads are definitely easier to read on FriendFeed though. - GerryBot

@Steve, I'm with you, but even RSS can't compensate for Twitter's ease of use. There is something to be said for the ability to get short IM-like messages in a timeline, rather than threaded vis-a-vis FF. If FF had a twhirl-like client interface it would be an easy substitution. Right now, it's not. - Ed Healy

/me loves his FF, though. :) - Ed Healy

Twitter seems to be more a right now kind of service, where FF brings all recent content into view. I guess they both have their uses, but which is more ideal is anyone's guess - Derek Schauland from twhirl

I like that I can look here & see what all the comments are at once. It makes it much easier to meet new people or find out a general 'take' on the topic. - Sheryl Loch