If you’ve been using Twitter lately, then you know that the utility can be down at any given moment. It’s no surprise that more and more FriendFeed invites are arriving in my inbox.
Today, I finally downloaded Alert Thingy, which is like Twhirl (a Twitter client) but for FriendFeed. The thing is sweet and while Twhirl hasn’t been able to give me any Tweets this morning, Alert Thingy has been, well, alerting me for a couple hours now.
But not just of Tweets. FriendFeed (and subsequently Alert Thingy) alerts me to anything my FriendFeed friends are sharing from any of their social profiles - StumbleUpon, Digg, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, del.icio.us, RSS feeds from your blogs and even Amazon wishlists.
But also, you can just post a thought like you would on Twitter. You can either use the “share something” function on the FriendFeed homepage, FriendFeed’s bookmarklet on your browser toolbar to share a web page, or via Alert Thingy. And hey, you don’t have to use a Tiny URL b/c you can hyperlink text instead. Did I mention you can search FriendFeed?
So, unless Twitter gets its act together fast, I think we should all migrate over to FriendFeed. I’m not sure what we’ll call our updates or if we’ll use @ to direct replies to someone. But we’ll figure it out as we go along. 