It's the same with many of these big niche products. Nothing wrong with niche, but the people who call FriendFeed the wave of the future are the people who have

It's the same with many of these big niche products. Nothing wrong with niche, but the people who call FriendFeed the wave of the future are the people who have the most to benefit from FriendFeed's becoming huge. Twitter is miniature compared to many of the huge networks out there. Bebo, Hi5, Orkut are all huger than Twitter, last I checked. (EDIT: I checked after posting this and Twitter's past all of them globally according to Alexa, but not in terms of users.) I don't go out of my way to analyze Facebook, but I know that a Facebook fan page having a million followers is fairly routine, even for relatively minor fan pages. Getting followers on Facebook is much easier than it is on Twitter, and it gives you the exact same relationship with your audience, but even stronger because there's comment/photo/video support. I don't mind Twitter at all - I wish more web sites would be so elegant - but a lot of the hype about Twitter being the "next big thing" is only half true. It's the NBT in that it succinctly represents a lot of the coolest things about the Internet, but it's not the only site to do that and it's one of the smaller examples out there.