/me gets out his fire extinguisher to save Steve Rubel from a horrible fiery demise. - Alex Scoble

Yay for the IRC reference Alex, haven't seen a good ole /me on FF for awhile! - Nicholas Kreidberg

Educate me - what does this mean? Believe me I don't think this has anything to do with me. It's inidicative of the site's growth. - Steve Rubel

there's been a lot of 'people you must follow on twitter ' blog posts recently so you may have picked up some followers from these. - Richard McKay

If that comment was directed at me, Steve, "/me" starts an "action" in IRC (you can also do it in Live Messenger). Basically you type /me and then whatever you want and in IRC it shows up as something like "ITBlogger (or whatever your username is) gets out his fire extinguisher to save Steve Rube..."...As for why I got out the fire extinguisher, you said Twitter was on fire, so I was trying to save you from burning. Oh sorry...you should've turned off verbose mode before you asked the question. Cheers! - Alex Scoble

*bristles* I'm jealous - Terence

That means you are getting 10x what I am getting. You've got to be on some list somewhere. - Louis Gray

Damn. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

I've seen nearly 100 new followers in 1 month and I don't even have a blog (yet)...that's gonna change in 2009 - Susan Beebe

FriendFeed is growing faster than Twitter did in its first year. So, if Twitter is on fire, FriendFeed is going nuclear! But, agreed, I'm seeing lots of follower growth on both services. - Robert Scoble

I've noticed that if I tweet less, I get more followers. That totally cracks me up. - Mark Schulz

Recently I'm adding a lot (for me) of followers, but not so with Friendfeed. How does someone "discover" you? Through the "friend of xxxx" feature, rooms, or just random luck? - David Bisset (sn)

David: I discover new people by their participation here. I'm following you, for instance. - Robert Scoble

Robert: So basically, like Twitter, commenting and presenting your own $0.02 is as much value as posting links and sharing urls. Slapping my forehead. - David Bisset (sn)

More great bloggers:) - Igor Poltavskiy

How do you "add followers" ? ;) (probably indirectly by not commenting stupid...oops) - Thomas Bøhm

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude" - Noah David Simon

Are you following the followers? - Bob Gannon

Been seeing that too (not at that rate :). - Charlie Anzman

This is why Twitter needs trackbacks or some sort of stats section showing referring urls to your stream. FF could use the same thing. According to Compete, last month FF had more users than Twitter did one year ago. FF should eclipse Twitter at some point in the future if things are done right. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas - I agree ... FF should overtake twitter pretty soon. LOTS of new subscribers on FF too ...really fast adoption now - Susan Beebe

200 a day!? Gosh, happy reading, Steve ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

You are going crazy. - Bibi

TwitterCounter says the rise is lower on average, but a few days have been 200+ to 300: http://twittercounter.com/... - Louis Gray

it's not twitter: it's you! Tssssss HOT! - sofarsoShawn

ha ha... I was about to say sommat like that!! not hard to follow lots! :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Twitter is hot, FriendFeed... not so much: http://www.google.com/trends... - Ken Morley

The FF v. twitter debate is kind of old already BUT I prefer friendfeed. - Nation Hahn