Lazycoder

Twitter’s down

So I’m starting to look at alternatives to Twitter. Right now, I’m looking at FriendFeed. It has the same Friend/Follower model that Twitter does. It integrates with a lot of other services. But can it handle the load? It’s being developed by some ex-Googlers who worked on GMail, GMaps and Oracle.

Eric over at Internet Duct Tape has put together some great Greasemonkey scripts that make working with FriendFeed a little easier.

So how would this work. Well, if you have a blog, you just set it up in FriendFeed. You can also post messages directly in FriendFeed. If you already have a Pownce or Jaiku account, you can add those into your profile and post to them as you normally would.

The one thing I think FriendFeed is missing right now is a way to directly message one of your friends/followers. You can reply to messages they’ve posted, but you can’t really initiate a conversation with anyone.

List of FriendFeed clients:
Twhirl - Recently added support for FriendFeed.
Alert Thingy – Best name ever for a desktop notification application.
MySocial247
Feedalizer