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I completely agree. Friendfeed was suited to Facebook as a way to expand its reach, effectively serving as a reader outside it’s own network. For the same reason, friendfeed wasn’t as attractive or necessary to Twitter that already had many readers. So you’re definitely right and my post doesn’t factor that in.

Perhaps my post was too simplistic but I was responding from a brand management point of view rather than through the lens of technology.

My key point is that its never ideal to let a rival own a piece of your real estate, even if they need that technology and you don’t. By allowing facebook to buy friendfeed, twiitter lost a little of itself and facebook gained the expertise of their real time technology veterans.

twitter currently owns the real time space and with facebook emulating them more and more within their own app, the last thing twitter wants is facebook also owning an external real time app on which twitter lives. I just think twitter’s defense should match facebook’s offense in such a dynamic competition.

Thanks so much for pointing out their respective needs and I agree I should have qualified the comparison more.

All the best,

Simon

I completely agree. Friendfeed was suited to Facebook as a way to expand its reach, effectively serving as a reader outside it’s own network. For the same reason, friendfeed wasn’t as attractive or necessary to Twitter that already had many readers. So you’re definitely right and my post doesn’t factor that in.

Perhaps my post was too simplistic but I was responding from a brand management point of view rather than through the lens of technology.

My key point is that its never ideal to let a rival own a piece of your real estate, even if they need that technology and you don’t. By allowing facebook to buy friendfeed, twiitter lost a little of itself and facebook gained the expertise of their real time technology veterans.

twitter currently owns the real time space and with facebook emulating them more and more within their own app, the last thing twitter wants is facebook also owning an external real time app on which twitter lives. I just think twitter’s defense should match facebook’s offense in such a dynamic competition.

Thanks so much for pointing out their respective needs and I agree I should have qualified the comparison more.

All the best,

Simon

I think has more to do with the fact that Facebook can eat into Twitters territory. Twitter pretty well allows any developer to create a 3rd party app OFF the Twitter site whereas Facebook historically mostly allows only with F8 (apps inside Facebook).

Add the fact that Friendfeed pulls info in but it’s really for reading, not engagement (try responding to a tweet on Friendfeed, or retweeting…?) and you can see why it suits Facebook to purchase FF, not Twitter…

I think has more to do with the fact that Facebook can eat into Twitters territory. Twitter pretty well allows any developer to create a 3rd party app OFF the Twitter site whereas Facebook historically mostly allows only with F8 (apps inside Facebook).

Add the fact that Friendfeed pulls info in but it’s really for reading, not engagement (try responding to a tweet on Friendfeed, or retweeting…?) and you can see why it suits Facebook to purchase FF, not Twitter…