From the perspective of the web as a giant brain, this has got to be freaking twitter out. Each time people switch like this, that route becomes better greased. Each time this happens, it becomes easier for the giant web brain to reroute it's signals through friendfeed. Very soon, the equilibrium changes and they don't switch back. It's exactly the process ants use to eat your oreos from your cabinet, and it's exactly how children's brains change from one pattern of behavior to another.
But twitter can't punish the kid or poison the ants to stop people from using friendfeed. Which means that unless they stop this trend right now, the giant internet brain we are all neurons in will basically think twitter out of existence. If twitter does not fix their scaling problems very soon and very well, so to stop this pattern of behavior, it will be alta vistad. (Remember Alta Vista? Neither does anyone else.)
Prediction. Jeff Bezos is going to get screwed on his recent investment. I love Jeff Bezos, but he funded twitter just as it was starting to sink.
But twitter can't punish the kid or poison the ants to stop people from using friendfeed. Which means that unless they stop this trend right now, the giant internet brain we are all neurons in will basically think twitter out of existence. If twitter does not fix their scaling problems very soon and very well, so to stop this pattern of behavior, it will be alta vistad. (Remember Alta Vista? Neither does anyone else.)
Prediction. Jeff Bezos is going to get screwed on his recent investment. I love Jeff Bezos, but he funded twitter just as it was starting to sink.