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Facebook? Up 10%. Twitter? Up 16%. FriendFeed? Flat

Source: Scobleizer

Jul 10, 2009

Summary

I’m largely seen as FriendFeed’s #1 cheerleader and customer #1.

But it isn’t catching on.

Rackspace’s President, Lew Moorman, and I have been having an interesting debate. He even wrote up his thesis: that FriendFeed should just become a great Twitter client to become relevant.

I have got to be honest: it’s worse than that.

FriendFeed has done some remarkable things in a short period of time with a far smaller team than works at Facebook (FriendFeed has 13 employees, if my count is accurate, while Facebook has 800+ and Twitter has 40+).

What have they done?

1. Built a real-time interface for having conversations that can be bundled together and linked to from this blog, unlike on Twitter or Facebook.

2. Given me a way to manage my users into groups. Twitter has promised that for two years but hasn’t delivered yet.

3. Delivered a much better direct messaging functionality than Facebook or Twitter.

4. Shipped true real-time search that not only is more powerful, but searches all web data types, not just 140-character messages. Famous search engine pundit Danny Sullivan

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Comments (4)

Matik72,

Jul 10, 2009

Preach it Brother Scoble! :-)

Rorowe,

Jul 10, 2009

I really liked the idea of Friendfeed. I created my account, added all my info, and joined a couple groups...but I feel like I fell through the cracks. I've lost it's purpose in my workflow. But I haven't given up, yet.