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With 1 click Friendfeed introduces the art of conversation to Twitter

The team at Friendfeed, in one fell swoop, have made conversation a much easier concept to digest for Twitterers the world over.

It’s no secret, attempting a conversation on Twitter is a painfully frustrating process, usually cut short by concerns over flooding your followers streams. It’s a wonderful place, but lets face it, attempting real conversation is equal to shouting across a crowded room.

With 1 click Friendfeed introduces the art of conversation to Twitter

Friendfeed, known for it’s lifestreaming and content oriented discussion, have added one click OAuth login for Twitter users making it painless to both join and comment on peoples shares. This, along with Facebook and Google login/signup, leaves virtually every web savvy user with a Friendfeed account ready and waiting. The news is going to be particularly good for Friendfeeders like Robert Scoble who send their posts through to Twitter.

There are bound to still be complaints from Twitter users who find the entire commenting elsewhere process a hindrance, but with any luck they’ll realise the virtues of Friendfeed and adjust. Friendfeed also provides functionality to share comments through

Along with easy login, the feature automatically finds all your Twitter friends on Friendfeed, imports your profile info as well asa your profile picture – it really doesn’t get much easier than that.

I do however still hope for deeper integration with Twitter, and not to forget Facebook, to the point where using Friendfeed as a client for both comes naturally. Once there, Friendfeed has the potential to become the webs social hub, surpassing what desktop clients such as Seesmic Desktop, Eventbox and Nambu are attempting to do.


  • Twitter is fast growing and everyone is trying their best to keep up with it!

    But let us remember one thing, FriendFeed may make tweeting easier but tweeting on a Twitter client is definitely a different experience. For instance, I use a Firefox Twitter plugin and that makes my job easy - I can read, tweet and retweet when I'm at my desktop. With FriendFeed, you tend to think that you may tend to receive tweets/conversations a bit late (I used this and noticed). However, finding your Twitter friends' profiles on FF is good. FF Twitter is a welcome thing, but need to see how it goes in the long run.
  • Very smart move. Now I've got myself even more socially net-"worked."

    Hope this doesn't get me all "played" out.

    Incidentally, I wrote a poem about it...sort of:
    http://www.effingthedog.com/2009/05/05/twas-the...
  • Yeah, FriendFeed adds real conversation features to Twitter. But in addition to this, with the 'like' feature FF is a great buzzing tool.
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