One of my largest issues with FriendFeed has been the duplication between commenting on Tweets (Twitter posts) which make up nearly half of all entries on FriendFeed, when Twitter itself is a two way communications tool. The folks at FriendFeed seem to have been listening.
Available now is the ability to respond to Tweets via FriendFeed on both Friendfeed itself and have those responses (complete with @user) posted to Twitter. FriendFeed fans will undoubtedly welcome the feature. Heavy Twitter users are unlikely to switch to FriendFeed full time quite yet (as someone said to me recently: FriendFeed needs its own Twitteriffic), but this is certainly a step in the right direction.
Looks good, I will use it for twitter.
-Michael B owner of http://mikesmon...ub.blogspot.com
Hey Duncan — it’s looks pretty cooool!
http://tinyurl.com/2wzlqc
Dave
Great stuff, to bad most people that are on my Twitter (or any other service I use really, like delicious, or upcoming) are not on friend feed
Hopefully soon enough FriendFeed will become the Facebook of the internet
Interesting.
This has got to seriously rankle (re: piss off) Twitter, Wilson, USV no?? I mean, say what you will about distributed commenting – but this essentially makes going to twitter.com pretty much a waste of time right? If so, then lets all be real here for a second. Its not like we’re not talking Google-type-aggregation (which has the back-rubbing result of driving more traffic to a site). Friendfeed appears to be pursuing an almost entirely opposite endgame.
Then again, this could lead to more twittering…
eitherway, page views to twitter.com (and some future revenue models?) just got seriously back-slapped
@nemo
this will definitely kill Twitter, I mean Twitter only has about 10 times the traffic right now as Friendfeed, and that is with all the 3rd party applications like Twitteriffic that already make visiting Twitter.com redundant.
@Bart, I thought Facebook already was the Facebook of the internet…
Thanks Duncan! I was able to get rid of the thincloud app on the iPhone because of this (it was “too clunky” for me, but FriendFeed just keeps on flowing).
Hey Dunc, thanks for the update. I’d like to default it on though.
Also, where is the Friendfeed API?
How does twitter make any money besides Snoop Dogg paying to be a featured twitterer. There are no ads!
James
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http://twitter....FaceySpacey_com
http://friendfe...com/faceyspacey
Just FYI, http://www.iminta.com (a FriendFeed competitor) does this, too. It’s not like this is rocket science…
I think this should be true for commenting on other services as well. because if someone comments on my photo updated it remains with FriendFeed only not reflected to photo on picasa web.