FriendFeed Still Reigns As Conversation King

14 Jun 2009

Today, I found yet another reason why I prefer discussing tech topics on FriendFeed over another popular social site, Twitter.

FriendFeed’s search is a big reason why you should move your Twitter conversations there. The above example shows the value in retaining search data. Twitter search only goes back a few days (I don’t know how many exactly, but it’s not that much) while FriendFeed retains much more data.

If you find yourself in need of data retrieval, I hope your data resides on FriendFeed. So how do you take advantage of this? It’s actually quite simple. You simply post a new FriendFeed entry and “CC Twitter”.

This will broadcast your your new topic to all your Twitter followers, and invite them to join the conversation on FriendFeed with a link. Some people hate this because they have to click through and go to yet another web page. Part of me understands this frustration in this “right now, do it yesterday” atmosphere, but the payoff is tremendous. Not only do you get a rich, single threaded conversation out of the deal, but the contents will be searchable a year from now. You can’t say the same about Twitter.

Robert Scoble has championed this technique for quite some time and is getting a lot of ridicule from his massive Twitter follower list. I believe he has a valid point. Your data is lost on Twitter, it isn’t on FriendFeed. It’s that simple.

What do you think? Comment here or on FriendFeed and it’ll all show up

Post written by Bwana

Tags: conversation, friendfeed, link, opinion, search, social media, threaded, twitter, web2.0

http://twitter.com/chowjackie chowjackie

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See http://bit.ly/yI0Yc and http://bit.ly/QTmiB . Twitter is not a Conversational Platform.
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http://friendfeed.com/techshali Madhav Tripathi

Yep because it hac a great platform for conversation.
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http://friendfeed.com/wadenick Nick Wade

Madhav is right. See Scobleiser’s feed for a list of conversations beginning last night about Twitter, on FF. Twitter has the brand caché and the mojo. FF has the filters and conversations. Let’s see Twitter bring those together.
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http://friendfeed.com/wadenick Nick Wade

Madhav is right. See Scobleiser’s feed for a list of conversations beginning last night about Twitter, on FF. Twitter has the brand caché and the mojo. FF has the filters and conversations. Let’s see Twitter bring those together.
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http://friendfeed.com/wadenick Nick Wade

BTW, Facebook is more than capable of holding these conversations. It just seems nobody cares to over there (if you’re too busy playing Mafia Wars or looking at college party photos, then it’s not really a surprise)
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Interesting stuff: “FriendFeed Still Reigns As Conversation King” http://bit.ly/yI0Yc
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Friendfeed still reigns as conversation King http://bit.ly/yI0Yc Better search than Twitter one big reason (via @piercedavid )
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http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt vijay

without a doubt.
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http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt vijay

embedding that thread was a nice touch! I know you said it yourself on the other thread but seeing it right on that post… very nice.
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FriendFeed Still Reigns As Conversation King [via feedly] http://ff.im/-40j93
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FriendFeed Still Reigns As Conversation King http://bit.ly/12RHEB
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http://anzman.blogspot.com/ Charlie Anzman

Really dig the inline Friendfeed integration in the post!
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Really dig the inline Friendfeed integration in the post!
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FriendFeed Still Reigns As Conversation King http://ff.im/-47JL6
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Via @tacanderson: FriendFeed Still Reigns As Conversation King. (I still find the threaded conversations easy to follow) http://ff.im/-47JL6
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http://friendfeed.com/jdebberly J. D. Ebberly

On Twitter you can drop off of searches and you’re royally screwed. On FF you don’t have to worry about all the Twitter glitches. The Twitter search glitch has really been the source of MUCH heartbreak, for me and for many others. I loved those Twitter hashtag chats so much. Without them, my life will never be whole again. Too bad Twitter’s a free service.
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http://friendfeed.com/thomaspower Thomas Power

hear hear Friendfeed is the best online right now
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http://friendfeed.com/zeroinfluencer David Bausola

A good desktop client maybe all it needs to be really used by more people.
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http://twitter.com/msuster msuster

I still don’t get why I’d use FriendFeed over Twitter. Here’s one argument but I bet Twitter will fix this over time http://bit.ly/psPdo
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