FriendFeedFriendFeedFriendFeed might not have close to the userbase of FacebookFacebookFacebook or TwitterTwitterTwitter, but make no mistake about it: Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed has big implications for the social web. One of Twitter’s big advantages over Facebook to-date has been its real-time search, and Facebook has already indicated that they’re working to build a competitive product.
Of the many things FriendFeed has done well, search is at the forefront. Their real-time search engine is much stronger than Twitter’s in terms of interface and usability: it simply doesn’t have nearly the volume of content to be as valuable as Twitter search. However, that problem is immediately solved if you plug content from Facebook’s 250+ million members into it.
Combine that with FriendFeed’s team history – they previously built Gmail and Google Maps so they obviously know how to scale things to Facebook size – and you have what sets up to be a serious threat to Twitter. Read more ……
