Facebook acquires FriendFeed
Facebook has acquired FriendFeed!
No details yet on the acquisition price, but we are guessing somewhere in the $50M range. It’s not quite what Facebook wanted (they original tried to nab Twitter last month for a reported $500M only to be turned down). FriendFeed had been showing steady growth over the last year up until Twitter ‘really took off’ in the past quarter, continuing to grow at an impressive 20% a month.
I think this combo, may halt Twitter in it’s tracks.
It’s clearly a good match. Over the last year or so, Facebook has “borrowed” quite a few of features that FriendFeed popularized, including the ‘Like’ feature and an emphasis on real-time news updates. Facebook has already built out some of FriendFeed’s functionality so there is some overlap, but there are still numerous ways FriendFeed beats out Facebook’s News Feed setup. FriendFeed works a little bit more like a forum, where people can comment on status updates (can’t do this on Twitter), and new activity pushes items back to the top (can’t do this on FB or Twitter).
Facebook really scored by retaining the founding team which consists of an all-star cast of ex-Googlers such as Paul Buchheit, who is responsible for creating Gmail.
I actually like FriendFeed better than Twitter.
Tags: facebook, freindfeed, Google, twitter
10. August 2009 at 9:13 pm :
That’s pretty interesting. Twitter may be in trouble now…
11. August 2009 at 4:16 am :
It’s sound like you don’t really like facebook, right?
11. August 2009 at 4:24 am :
This is a shame. FriendFeed was a good tool and it will become just another FB piece of garbage that will spam all it’s users.
19. August 2009 at 1:14 am :
Nicest post, I agree with. I’m also user FriendFeed, no doubt it is better than Twitter. Because very difficulty in twitter using.
Regards,