Another Social Network Down and Out

As Facebook rises in power, another one falls victim.

With FriendFeed, this was no exception. Yet another social network crumbles due to the popularity of the enviable Facebook. When FriendFeed's site crashed for over an hour on Thursday, February 25th, the buzz wasn't large. In fact, only about 50 people on Twitter found it worthwhile to tweet about it. Sadly, some of the tweets were repeats from the same users.

So out of the tens of millions of Twitterers, less than 50 of them showed enough care about FriendFeed's well-being. Even though it wasn't huge, FriendFeed still had a relatively large following. The infamous 500 Internal Server Error made the site look abandoned; what one might call: outdated.

That means that of all the tens of millions of people around the world on Twitter, a full 50 of them care enough to tweet when FriendFeed is down. It’s hard to imagine any other service that got to the size FriendFeed did (which, granted, wasn’t huge), only getting 50 tweets if it goes down. Many old FriendFeed employees now work for Facebook, almost like a cross-town rival.

Could this be the end of FriendFeed? When it finally does recover from it's "major power outage", maybe people won't even notice. Maybe even a tweet will require too much effort.