Social Media Butterfly

Twhirl-Like Application Coming Soon for FriendFeed

Posted by Nathania Johnson

FriendFeed opened up its API and already there is a desktop application to get excited about. According to TechCrunch, Howard Baines is in the process of developing Alert Thingy. As you can tell, the image to the left indicates that Alert Thingy could be FriendFeed’s Twhirl equivalent.

I love that it’s called Alert Thingy. Social media really thrives on transparency and what better way to name a FriendFeed client than this!

I’m particularly happy to see a search feature, as I feel that’s where the true power of FriendFeed lies. It will be interesting to see what the settings will be. I’d like to be able to track keywords or brands in order to empower online reputation management.

Also, if you can Tweet directly from Alert Thingy, what will be the implications for Twhirl and other Twitter clients? Could it be that Alert Thingy will be a Twhirl killer?

I think it will depend on how most people will use FriendFeed. Watching all of the updates from all of your friends on FriendFeed can be overwhelming. And if you just use AlertThingy for Twitter, it will likely have to offer something more than Twhirl currently does.

Perhaps, the best use will be to watch everything BUT Twitter. If so, it may give a boost to social media sites that may be a little neglected since the Twitter craze took over.

I guess we’ll have to wait until Alert Thingy and the inevitable other FriendFeed applications are released to the public. I know we’ll all be keeping a close eye on these cool apps to come.

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