Maybe it is just me, but I just don't care for either. I am 27, tech savy, but still don't get the allure of twitter, or even friend feed.
I feel old, like the average 65+yo, wondering what's up with their grandkids staying in front of computer all day and just sending messages to each other.
Not getting it. Maybe if I was a journalist I would find it useful, but for the rest of us, I am not sure the value of it.
I used to be like that. It very confusing to an outsider what the allure is, so it's more a call for an explanation.
Personally, I didn't "get it" until I signed up and had a couple of friends on it. It's kinda nice to see what people are up to without having to read a blog post about their life or whatever.
Because its short, its easy just to glance at and see what the other person is up to.
Its a good place for a quick discussion or poll, ie. you can broadcast, what mail software do you use? and have your friends reply and possibly other people.
I use Twitter as a sideblog (a part of my blog sidebar where I put any posts that I don't feel like developing past the 140 character mark.) I've never once gotten into a conversation on Twitter, nor, I think, would I want to. But, of course, I still use it, because it has a killer app that none of the other sites seem to appreciate: it's embeddable without needing a whole bunch of gaudy "widget" framework.
I don't get the allure of Twitter but I know that's because I haven't made the investment to figure it out, and don't actually know what it does. If I signed for an account and started using it I'm sure I'd figure out a way to make it give me some benefit.
FriendFeed is very impressive - among other things, I like that it posts my reddit upvotes and Amazon wishlist updates to my facebook feed - keeping my friends up-to-date on what I'm looking at.
I am under the (possibly mistaken) impression that Twitter really only comes into its own when posting from a cell phone, where its radical simplicity becomes an asset, rather than a liability.
That's true, but we get so many Twitter articles posted in here, that it must be important. I am trying to understand why do some people feel it is important, and how it is useful to them.
People like it because it's blogging but with a captive audience, and the 140-character limit keeps you from writing Steve Yegge-style blog posts. You make a point, your friends are forced to read it, they can reply. That's twitter :)
I feel old, like the average 65+yo, wondering what's up with their grandkids staying in front of computer all day and just sending messages to each other. Not getting it. Maybe if I was a journalist I would find it useful, but for the rest of us, I am not sure the value of it.