Since Facebook acquired FriendFeed this summer, traffic to the social media aggregator has "plummeted," according to prolific PR technology blogger Steve Rubel. Calling the decline "unsurprising,"
Rubel explains: "I still see a big space in between in between blogs and Twitter that allows you to have a hub and spoke strategy and post in multiple formats ... That's one reason I am bullish about
both Posterous and Tumblr." But, apparently, not FriendFeed.
Facebook paid nearly $50 million for the company, which was founded in 2007 by four former Google software engineers as a way
for users to keep track of their friends' activities across social-media services at the same time.
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