Twitter: "a marketing channel for announcements and customer service in case someone wanted to contact me that way."

... "I have to admit I still don’t “get” Friendfeed yet"

Friend, feed, not marketing. How hard is that? Many of us keep moving on to what looks like the next big thing because the last big thing has been polluted by people using it for marketing, when all we really want is a way to talk to friends (although in a weird, public, narcissistic way).

You can't really have it both ways, though. Twitter wants to be the next big thing; they want to be mainstream. With that comes marketers and other people who's only intention is to use Twitter to make more money. I've grown to hate Twitter, but if it could make me more money, I'd be all over it again.

Believe it or not, many people don't want to talk to their friends in weird, public ways via Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, etc. We want to use them for something productive... like making money.

Of course twitter and many companies want that. But the people who keep moving onto the next big thing do it because they get tired of the commercialism - it's just noise to them.

Hi ojbyrne, just to make sure: I wasn't suggesting that I wanted to do any marketing on FF (I don't do it on Twitter any more either, that's the main point of my post) - rather I was saying that Twitter doesn't seem well suited for long conversations, while Friendfeed might be.

There is actual content about Twitter here (I have come to expect nothing less from Peldi).

>> "suggested that 50 cents of that dollar could go to Twitter but that the remaining 50 cents should go to the receiver of the unsolicited Twitter message. Now that would be nice: getting paid to be advertised to? I want to live in such a World!"

Yup, it's time to repeat the alladvantage get paid to surf business model. :/