DISQUS

Edwin Khodabakchian · 7 months ago

This is clever. I think that they could go one step forward and create ghost accounts for the people you follow on twitter but are not friendfeeders yet using the RSS feed of the public timeline. This would allow more data to flow towards friendfeed and allow them to showcase the power of the search and conversation (specially if they find a way to organize twitter replies and twitter RTs nicely under each post. I am really impressed by how well the friendfeed team is executing!

Scobleizer · 6 months ago

Edwin: I believe Twitter's terms of service doesn't let friendfeed display info for people who are not already signed onto Twitter.

Richard Cunningham · 7 months ago

I've noticed that, probably due to the attention it got, a lot of people signed up to friendfeed but don't actually login. It would be interesting to know of that 45% how many actually do login and participate since even when friendfeed says someone has commented - it often just means it has imported comments from other sites.

I think whilst this feature does help make friendfeed a better aggregator, you will still miss out on people who don't join friendfeed.

I think there is still a real need for a proper aggregator like friendbinder (Disclosure: i'm biased) which lets you keep track of your friends where ever they choose to be active and doesn't require everyone to have an account on some central site. For example I think it's very unlikely that I could persuade my friends on facebook to join friendfeed.

Joe Dawson · 7 months ago

Extensive summary and I noticed that Mark Zuckerberg (http://friendfeed.com/zuck) has a private feed available

infolode · 7 months ago

Louis, as I'm fairly new @ using FF, I have a question: Are my posts to any of the services getting double posted when I post in on or the other? Since I try to join someone I like where ever they are, I tend to get spammed more than I'm comfortable with. I don't want to do the same thing to them by feeding my streams all over the place inadvertently.

The_Swine_Flu · 7 months ago

I don't really share your concern. One can never have too much swine flu

Wayne Sutton · 7 months ago

I agree, FriendFeed is doing a great job of adding valuable features and it's quietly becoming one of the most valuable sites on the web, especially to us "real time geeks".

I ran the "find your friend on twitter" script too and it found 5745 twitter friends that I wasn't subscribed to.

Overall FriendFeed continues to just get better.

The_Swine_Flu · 7 months ago

maybe i should get a friendfeed account too? Facebook has been really good for spreading my message http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Swine-Flu/769...

Lakshman Prasad · 7 months ago

What did I just see? FF using oAuth as OpenID?

TechNTools · 7 months ago

We still need "imaginary" accounts reestablished. If not, I'll still have to check my twitter feed...fail

Mike Vardy · 7 months ago

IVery smart move. Now I've got myself even more socially net-"worked."

Hope this doesn't get me all "played" out.

Incidentally, I wrote a poem about it:
http://www.effingthedog.com/2009/05/05/twas-the...

freeryan · 7 months ago

It's worth noting that you can search for and subscribe to the FF friends of any Twitter account. I did this for Scoble and now my add/remove friends window is painfully slow: http://freeryan.com/friendfeed-lets-me-subscrib...