The Power Of Friendfeed

17 Aug

I haven’t been keeping track of my Feedburner stats as much lately. I am convinced that RSS is secondary to email subscribers. But…

Having said that – I did log into my Feedburner account today and started noticing a sharp increase in RSS subscribers. Looking at the pie-chart it looks like the majority of these are being counted in Friendfeed.

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Note to self. Think more carefully about how to leverage Friendfeed for my own sites and client sites. This appears to be a powerful tool.

What is your experience with Friendfeed? How are you using it to communicate online? I’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave a comment below.

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  • joelmarkwitt
    I'm sure you've got a point Taylor. The same argument could be made for Twitter followers. They could be seen as "lower quality" - but I just view it as an informal acquaintance that could lead to a deeper relationship in the future.

    ~ Joel
  • joelmarkwitt
    You are right in asking Taylor. Are some RSS subscribers more valuable than others?

    I guess I wasn't measuring worth as much as I am noticing the potential of Friendfeed to connect with an audience (however informal) in a new way.

    ~ Joel
  • RSS subscribers that pay attention are "worth" (meaning, paying attention, making a connection) more than ones than don't.

    I have an assumption (which could be very wrong) that a lower % of Friendfeed RSS subscribers pay attention than just regular RSS subscribers. Thoughts?
  • Actually, it invites a question: is a Friendfeed subscriber "worth" as much as an RSS subscriber, or an Email subscriber, or a person that visits the site directly, or a Twitter follower? We intuitively know the answer is no, but how can we measure the x multiple of "worth" to each form of content distribution? There must be some way which I'm overlooking...

    Friendfeed used to count as 1 RSS sub, and it changed a couple months ago. I'm curious if people started trying to get more FF subs purely to boost their RSS sub count :)
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