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Twitter vs. FriendFeed in Driving Traffic

Jun 05, 2009

Doug Haslam One of my reasons for blogging is to experiment. What drives traffic and conversation? Which communication platforms are more effective? One of my "experiments" is seeing what happens when my friend and very popular social media guy Chris Brogan (www.chrisbrogan.com) links to me. In January, he liked one of my posts, linked (Read More)

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Mark Carbone,

Jun 06, 2009

: Agreed.

Sharisax,

Jun 07, 2009

: Friendfeed was one of those SM sites I'd read about early on and signed up for BUT neglected until Robert Scoble came to speak to my SFSU public relations class . . . he is GungHo for FriendFeed, so I'm having a go at it myself as I build up my own online presence, esp. with my blog ShariSax is Out There [pardon self promotion :-)}
My own experience shows FriendFeed to offer some of the BEST of Facebook, i.e., conversations -- that you really can't have on Twitter.
As much as I love Twitter, I really do dislike reading comments @someone where I have no context. Of course, with Friendfeed, you do not have that.

Dough,

Jun 08, 2009

: Ironically, the post seems to be getting traction here on social median, which of course does not show up in my blog traffic. Does that negate the Twitter passalong and the conversations here? I don;t think so. It does add to the desire for a way to merge more of these conversations.