The funny path of a twit on Friendfeed

You would think that a message on twitter is sent from twitter and answered on twitter. Wrong. A new phenomon is happening that i will illustrate with an example, a phenomenon i will call "deconstructed conversations"



I explained in the past how i sent a twitter alert from Flickr (for mobile but i use it now from my computer). I posted today a picture illustrating the fact that Facebook is not showing anymore the "is twittering" in the status update when you sync twitter with Facebook. I asked in that picture "why?". That picture was sent to Twitter and also appeared on FriendFeed where my twitter account is synced.

The amazing thing is that i got way more reactions on FriendFeed than on Twitter. and this is even more amazing if you consider that i have 10 times more followers on Twitter than on FriendFeed. Meaning the engagement ratio on FriendFeed is way higher.

Conclusions:

• I asked a question on Flickr
• it was distributed on Twitter and FriendFeed
• and i got my reactions on FriendFeed mainly
• i also got reactions on twitter and on Flickr.
• the conversation is deconstructed although it has a single source

hard to follow no? but this is something that starts to become common thans to aggregation services. Meaning the conversations start to be deconsctructed and can end up in a different place where they started. Fred Wilson has a good post on that too today.

FriendFeed however has a strong weakness, it is not built yet to alert you when you get reactions from your followers which is so well done on twitter specially in mobile situations. I have less reactions on twitter but when they happen i get them in real time (assuming it is not down...).

ps: on a sidenote if this goes on i might have to come back on what i said about twitter being the best Q&A service out there

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