Sean Reiser

Last night, Warren Whitlock tweeted

Is FriendFeed going to replace Twitter? Follow me on http://friendfeed.com/warrenwhitlock

That might be a good way to get your current followers to subscribe to your FriendFeed but it got me to thinking about if FF could replace twitter as the prominent messaging social network. My initial reaction, which Warren retweeted was:

@WarrenWhitlock twitter is to friendfeed as baseball is to espn

For those that asked why I had him plug my blog at the same time, when he said he was going to quote me on it, I thought he was blogging it, so I was giving him where to point the attribution. If I knew we was re-tweeting I would've handled if differently

The more I think about it the more that analogy holds water, at least the way I use the tools. FF is the way I see all my friends activity in the web 2.0 space I find I am more and more going to FF instead of Youtube, Flickr, Blogs to see who updates when and then I drill into content from there. Since the person controls what their feeds are it's a more complete picture then subscribing to someone's RSS feed. It's the presence aggregator I have been looking for. Twitter, on the other hand, I use for status updates, inspiration and banter. The same way ESPN carries baseball as content, FF carries Twitter. When I'm away from baseball for a while, I turn on sports center, when I'm "catching up" from a period away from twitter, I use FF to get a sense of where people are and what they have been.