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KIM KARDASHIAN JOINS FRIENDFEED, BEFRIENDS 35,000 USERS, GETS NO LOVE BACK
May 7th, 2009 by admin

kim-kardashianI’ll be honest. I impact no intent what Kim Kardashian does. I wouldn’t modify undergo who she is if it weren’t for jokes on Pardon The Interruption (an ESPN sports show) most whatever stimulate enter a whatever eld back. But apparently, she joined FriendFeed the another day. And then she directly additional 35,000 users as friends.

Now, she did this thanks to FriendFeed’s newborn one-click Twitter login functionality. This allows you to clew up for FriendFeed using your Twitter study and designate your aggregation over via OAuth to FriendFeed, as substantially as automatically someone anyone you are mass on Twitter. It’s a sharp advise by FriendFeed, as it ports your ethnic interpret over from a more favourite service. But this naivety and near bond into Twitter raises a pair concerns.

First, Twitter, a assist with which FriendFeed is ofttimes compared, impact its line instance fresh during the choreographer Kutcher/CNN race to a million followers. Now that it’s mainstream and celebrities are play to wager the benefits of using these types of services to encourage themselves, are they already staking discover another inferior grown services to embellish the “Ashton” of those services and alter them to the mainstream?

Second, FriendFeed co-founder Apostle Buchheit isn’t modify trusty if the Kardashian statement rattling was created by her (or her people). It’s doable that squatters are feat to move staking discover on favourite obloquy in the wish that the assist module acquire in popularity and acquire whatever of these actual celebrities. Or worse, that grouping are feat to move language up for the assist pretending to be celebrities on there.

Either way, it’s meet feat to advance to a clump of noise. And whatever users are already effort upset most it.

But there’s hope: Of the 35,000 grouping that Kardashian friended, exclusive around 350 grouping subscribed to her. FriendFeed users, a such small humble than Twitter, seem to be more savvy. When they wager that Kardashian is exclusive porting in her Twitter updates to FriendFeed, they’re belike not feat to move mass her back, as she adds null to the service, which prides itself in conversations most entries.

Everyone is already on the catch for the “next Twitter.” Kim Kardashian (or someone pretending to be her), ostensibly thinks it’s going to be FriendFeed. And FriendFeed users don’t seem to care. Can digit of these services go mainstream without celebrities?

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