Comments on: FriendFeed Follower Patterns Exposed: How Jason, Mike, Loic & Robert Get So Many Followers So Quickly (video)

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

yep – just keeps the same crew in the same seats

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Don’t hate…. they obviously picked the best looking/most intelligent/funny folks to be the nine defaults. FF works! :-)

best j

By: Chris Herbert

Chris Herbert — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nice work figuring this out and proving it out! This blog post has been shared in the FriendFeed Room entitled: “Social Media, Making it all WorK”. http://friendfeed.com/rooms/social-media-making-it-all-work

By: Jack Carlson

Jack Carlson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Why not the nine most active users on that day? I appreciate the attention that the “Fab 9″ have brought to FriendFeed, but I agree that those who are most active should receive notice. True, the most active may not be posting content of value, but there’s no guarantee these nine are, either. FriendFeed should keep the recommendations fresh and use a better criteria for selecting them.

By: Jim McCusker

Jim McCusker — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Allen,
I’d call these defaults an excellent marketing campaign from FF’s standpoint. Those default FF users pretty much represent the same echo-chamber ‘attractors’ in the technology/web space. I think it’s a little disingenuous when you ask how those people because popular FF users. It’s obviously a well calculated way to market to the major technology attractors; or was that comment meant to be tongue in cheek?

By: Andy DeSoto

Andy DeSoto — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Calacanis participates.

By: centernetworks

centernetworks — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

donna martin graduates?

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, I guess Twitter is more of a democracy, without lists and special rooms. I only subscribe to 3 or the “Big 9″ and I don’t really give a cr@p about the techno-financial cult of personality and the race to get followers (only a fraction of whom read your posts, by the way), but I would love it if you asked Friend Feed to explain it.

I mean, it doesn’t influence who I choose to follow but it is an odd way to set up the system, to have defaults. I’ve tried to import all of those I follow into FF without success, it fails every single time I’ve tried (which is at least a dozen times). So, until I easily move my lists over to FF, I only rarely visit FF and that is usually just to clean up my message lists and delete duplicate messages I’ve sent.

The only advantage of FF for me at this point is that it seems to archive one’s Tweets while Twitter only goes back 10 pages worth of entries. Sometimes I’ve wanted to scroll back to see who mentioned something that I later found to be interesting.

There does seem to be more of an “inner circle” feel at FF but maybe that’s just because I’m an infrequent user of it.

By: S. Rahidi

S. Rahidi — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You could have made this video 8 seconds long and been able to communicate all of the salient points.

Also – lose the glasses and hat. You’re scaring your viewers.

By: Eric Rice

Eric Rice — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Amusingly, I avoid subscribing to the usual suspects (most of whom I know personally), and I *still* get hammered by the repurposing of their content.

By: patricia

patricia — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

in all due respect, i’m not sure why people would care. there are alot of bigger things going on than these kind of applications. it’s only natural that users will migrate through various communications platforms. yesterday’s myspace is tomorrow’s facebook is today’s twitter and next week’s whatever…

By: Jay Cuthrell

Jay Cuthrell — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nice… and these same popular ones when they -started- on FF had complaints about duplicates. I don’t know how to deep link to comments in FF yet but I stated as such to another person asking why -every- blog post a person makes seems to show in in the FF stream:

“It’s one of the passerby options in Twitter Tools for WordPress and a function of application design where aspects are not shown (i.e. private view, friends view, public view) that impact the wider audience. So, there are often unintended duplicates — plus the Twitter update that is also a blog update that is related to another ping type service update. Early FF adopters bitched up a storm about it.”

By: Circle Jerk

Circle Jerk — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

ye olde valley circle jerk – mike, jason, loic, robert.

By: Corvida

Corvida — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was just thinking a little while ago that I wish the recommendations tab would recommend other people besides the “elite”. I’m sick of seeing them there and I’m not going to subscribe to them.

By: mack collier

mack collier — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Mack also misses the point when he tries to explain the follower numbers. ”

So the people that are subscribing to Scoble/Arrington etc on Friendfeed are NOT following them on Twitter? Impossible for you to know that, so my guess is just as good as yours.