A few months back I wrote about how desktop Twitter clients are pointless, especially when they offer no benefit to the user. For the most part I still today hold the same contempt for desktop twitter clients I had back in early March 2009 with one exception: Tweetie for Mac by atebits. This is the one and only desktop Twitter client I have found worth using on a regular basis, and the one client offering many advantages unlike its competition. I continue to find the focused reliance on using a desktop client to access Twitter quite fascinating, but at the same time understandable, especially after having used Tweetie for Mac since its debut.
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Facebook and Twitter are two completely different types of web sites. Facebook is a full-featured web-based service, offering a wide ranging set of capabilities – it is the epitome of a social networking service. On the other hand, Twitter merely offers the ability to update your status and nothing else. It seems each site appeals to a specific subset of users and for particular reasons. What is it about each site that makes it appealing and what types of users engage each site?
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They nailed it. FriendFeed just made available massive amounts of micro-blog information ready for mass consumption and — promiscuous correlation. No stone left unturned.
Recent upgrades on their advanced search now provide Google-istic operators that make sifting through millions of mini-articles a walk in the park — ultimately getting users closer to the data they’re really after.
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Twitter, the highly popular micro-blogging site, is decidedly not a niche service. It has general purpose usability with far reaching appeal. Twitter might as well be considered mainstream – Israel and Hamas have coordinated their propaganda campaigns using Twitter as a centerpiece for broadcasting their views to the world. Contrast that to FriendFeed, a social aggregation facility which has only truly found love from the technologically savvy early adopter crowd. But the question most people find themselves asking is this – should I use Twitter, Friendfeed or both? My time is valuable and both services compete for that time, so which service should I spend it on?
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