Twitter Dies, FriendFeed the New Microblogging Platform of Choice
Something feels a little different today in microblogging land. The tide seems to
have turned. Twitter, the trend-maker that has seen better days now seems to have died a slow and painful death of a thousand cuts. Twitter has been limiing along, not quite ready to die. It made it through Apple’s WWDC when we thought it wouldn’t, but since then, Twitter has been hamstringing functionality for uptime. That may have been a trade off the Twitterati wouldn’t accept.
Accompanying the empty feeling one gets on Twitter today, the inverse seems to be true on FriendFeed. Influentials are asking aloud how to tie FriendFeed to their blog comments, they’re enabling FriendFeed to post their updates to Twitter. They’re making it known that they will be spending time on Twitter instead of Twitter. Their readers are taking notice and moving to FriendFeed as well.
There was some questions as to who would reap the spoils of Twitter’s defeat. The victor seems to be FriendFeed… for now.
Time will tell whether FriendFeed can captivate and grow this fickle audience. If not. Plurk, Pownce, Jaiku and others are waiting in the wings to be the next microblogging platform of choice.
