I’ll be honest. I have no idea what Kim Kardashian does. I wouldn’t even know who she is if it weren’t for jokes on Pardon The Interruption (an ESPN sports show) about some sex tape a few years back. But apparently, she joined FriendFeed the other day. And then she immediately added 35,000 users as friends.
Now, she did this thanks to FriendFeed’s new one-click Twitter login functionality. This allows you to sign up for FriendFeed using your Twitter name and transfer your information over via OAuth to FriendFeed, as well as automatically friend anyone you are following on Twitter. It’s a smart move by FriendFeed, as it ports your social graph over from a more popular service. But this simplicity and close tie into Twitter raises a couple concerns.
First, Twitter, a service with which FriendFeed is often compared, hit its watershed moment recently during the Ashton Kutcher/CNN race to a million followers. Now that it’s mainstream and celebrities are starting to see the benefits of using these types of services to promote themselves, are they already staking out other less mature services to become the “Ashton” of those services and bring them to the mainstream?
Second, FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit isn’t even sure if the Kardashian account really was created by her (or her people). It’s possible that squatters are going to start staking out on popular names in the hope that the service will grow in popularity and gain some of these real celebrities. Or worse, that people are going to start signing up for the service pretending to be celebrities on there.
Either way, it’s just going to lead to a bunch of noise. And some users are already getting upset about it.
But there’s hope: Of the 35,000 people that Kardashian friended, only around 350 people subscribed to her. FriendFeed users, a much smaller base than Twitter, seem to be more savvy. When they see that Kardashian is only porting in her Twitter updates to FriendFeed, they’re probably not going to start following her back, as she adds nothing to the service, which prides itself in conversations about entries.
Everyone is already on the hunt for the “next Twitter.” Kim Kardashian (or someone pretending to be her), apparently thinks it’s going to be FriendFeed. And FriendFeed users don’t seem to care. Can one of these services go mainstream without celebrities?
How am i meant to read the actual content with that image along side it? Copied and pasted into a text editor…
She’s got best butts. Ppl still dont know butts are more imp than b**bs for good s*x.
And you got it goin on with Ms Thang. Dayum, we are SO outta here!
Top video footage is available online on:
http://livevide...=Kim_Kardashian
it is amazing!
omg i agree.. i saw the video.. and all kim is doing is movin her jaw side to side, grinding away… in some clips shes chewing gum, i rekon they were on ecstacy
> > > http://all-tube...ashian+Sex+Tape
http://www.kimksuperstar.ws
this is the official site of the infamous video and well worth it by the way.
She is a goblin. Go away please Kim.
prime example of Open Social. this is where our strategic multichannel locator network comes in. users will forever want to position themselves on pillars of personalization social channels. whom ever has the greatest collection of pillars may just be on to something.
StarsLocator.com – super dupers
I was wondering why in the hell Kim was on my subscription list. I felt falttered, and then I took a look at her feed of bather coming from twitter, and I knew she had nothing to do with it. I hope they disallow the ability to do this, it’s horrible that somone can blast into that many subs, and a horrible invasion of privacy. I you care about my feed, fine subscribe, otherwise, gtfo.
Kim Kardashian on FriendFeed? Now that’s some noise for ya.
Friendfeed has zero charisma, it’s way too tech based for real celebs to care about.
This why Kim Kardashian whoever she is joining becomes the best news that can be drummed up about Friendfeed
Troll.
He can bump off the bent over old lady and take control of the entire yard!
If Kim subscribed to me, I didn’t notice. But if she did, the easiest thing to do is follow back and throw her in a list called “Following”. That way she still feels good, but you never have to see her inane updates.
Louis – great idea there!
you just blew my mind because i should have totally thought of that already
(and i’m not talking about kim, but in general… and i don’t think she’s following me either)
Or, LG, you could just not follow back. ‘Cause telling the world here you follow back then throw them in a black hole is pretty much the same, no? Not following back takes the ambiguity out of it.
The differences are subtle. Subscribing will make some friend-of-a-friend items appear (which wouldn’t apply to an inactive user such as Kim Kardashian) and allows direct messaging.
Cool. I was just looking at how much traction I’ve been getting on FF. FF is going mainstream.
I’m not sure I really get friending on friendfeed anyway. I suppose I use it differently than most. I use it to aggregate activity from different services and post it to Twitter.
But if I’m already following you on flickr, facebook and twitter, why do I need to follow you on friendfeed too? *confused*
I agree with you. Enough is enough.
Also, add the ability to edit comments, My horrible typing, always need a spit polish.
Bummer. I’m calling off my sex tape session [1] since there won’t be an discernible impact to my FF and Twitter follower count. [2]
[1] just remember, someone out there is actually considering these kinds of things
[2] but if they ever allowed MySpace friend import, it would probably garner greater reciprocity of follows
It’s helps to video your sex cause lord knows what if the well runs dry…
-1 too late 4 me and TMI
Boring
I love Boring Oregon
or is that Boring, Oregon?
tool
melvin
PS I LIVE THERE because god goofed and put Idaho over there. I’ll stay another 31 years.
I added her, haha
She subscribed to my ‘official’ ff account
Well, Kim is hot but I think that’s about it. In my opinion celebrities only help when they engage in conversation. In our case we cater to celebrities that relate to our content. Today in incorporated Anthony Dias Blue http://budurl.c...m/BlueLifestyle
This helps us attract the member we’re after, in Mr. Blue’s case, it’s all about lifestyle.
well good, glad I could help her get some more followers
You never knew who Kim Kaedashian is! My my, that’s news.
Who’s Kim Kardashian? I don’t really care, but she’s hot.
You never knew who Kim Kardashian is! My my, that’s news.
Who?
I see a real opportunity to make a snarky albeit racy remark about someone feeding someones friend. But I’ll not do that and say this….
I still do not personally spend a lot of time on FriendFeed. I feel like I should, because I’m geeky and love information. It just feels awkward to navigate, and way too overwhelming.
Who the hell is Kim Kardashian?
no love back.. she has 660k followers on twitter, thats some love to me :/
I thought it was spam and I did not subscribe to her. Why would she possibly care about me and I her. Ridiculous.
she does what paris hilton does .
probably means that her remaining 34k plus twitter followers are spam bots!
Oh, geesh.
Heck, I love FF and want more people to participate in the fun… but the operative word is participate. If you’re just going to blast your Tweets, don’t bother.
i vote scobleizer to become the âAshtonâ of friendfeed (but he’s not a celeb, so probably can’t be) – maybe we could get bruce willis? he’s on twitter already right? or what about a race to a million between will ferell and adam sandler?
Chris: :-/ I hope that never happens to FF here (celeb/popularity/number of followers contest)..
Wow, can’t this bitch think of anything more original?
Sorry friendfeed its too late.
may be it is good
I noticed she was following me on FF, but I am not aware of a notice. However I am not following her or vise-versa on twitter, so I am not sure why she followed me.
If she offers a blowjob I add her
I had surmised all this site is about is SEX
But will you love her tomorrow?
I won’t love her while getting the BJ why would I love her after?
That’s right, women are scared and shallow these days…
I forgot all that sh!t being an outerspace pilgrim and intinerate janitor.
Can’t remember Motown. Must find my official Hulu melonballer.
@Now waiting for the worm payload to be announced on TechCrunch.
Bill the Cat says: pppbbbbblllllt!
3/5 hairballs
Oh heck – who cares?
We just be illin’ y’all
Flow!
So Many People are Spamming & Faking the Services like Twitter & FF, that there need to devise some mechanism to remove all this crap.
I am not at all sure if Kim really joined FriendFeed considering the tech orientation and usage of FF.
I have never heard of her and I’m not interested either but looks like she is only importing her Twitter feed at the moment! I’m sure if she started importing UStream that her subscribers would increase considerably with all the sex starved guys on her case.
How long until Ashton Kutcher joins Friendfeed?
God, these untalented wanna-be celebrities are using any and all forms of digital media to ‘Pimp Up’ their inflated ego’s.
Wow Kim Kardashian joins FriendFeed.
But as to Kim Kardashian’s status in the Celebrity World, she is pure ChickenFeed.
Friendfeed users do seem more savvy. On something like Twitter I don’t mind following people that I don’t care about, to some extent. Mainly because I only watch my search queries anyways… It’s too congested otherwise. Friendfeed has a little different interface, so I’d rather not clog that up with crap accounts like Kim Kardashian, nothing she says would interest most Friendfeed users.
How can an aggregate of Twitter be the next Twitter? Friendfeed adds nothing itself, it’s merely a social network RSS with comments tacked on.
For all those who immediately went looking for the sex tape like me, here it is: http://hiphopru...tape-watch.html (took some hunting i’ll tell you!)
With this piece of news , not sure who gets more popularity , Kim or FF.
Arrington should figure out how to use rich media rss with friendfeed. This post would have a lot more likes and comments right now if the photo associated with his article was included.
You said it! LOL.
TC sure looks like a wordpress shop – they could install the MRSS plugin and have photo imports working within minutes.
Yep, looks like TC doesn’t support MediaRSS (paste this http://feedprox....com/TechCrunch into the box here: http://friendfe...om/api/feedtest).
and I joined one Gavin Newsom, at http://friendfe...m/GavinNewsom24, the future president of the USA and mayor of SanFrancisco, the future governor of California … and also, .. nothing ..
HAHA…. I feel bad for her. Should I be her friend? Ah maybe not
I accepted. Maybe I should open my feed, since I’m very ff-promiscuous.
Kim who?
Whatever! If KIM is doing publicity stunt or going open social, so is TC with such articles!
Who the hell cares bout her! I wonder how can it even come to one of most respected tech sites of the world.
The next day Paris Hilton does ‘one of her things’ again and that will feature in TC I guess too. coz it has something to do with the internet so its techie.
Really shabby stuff.
I love Kim. Screw you guys.
Didn’t even know who she was… had to look it up.
I sent an email to Kardashian’s publicist to find out if she really signed up for FriendFeed, and she pretty much said it wasn’t her.