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Bret Taylor
Turkey: The land that embraced Facebook, FriendFeed and startups - http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010...
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While the Alexa numbers are not accurate in absolute terms, it is true that Turkey is now officially the largest source of traffic for FriendFeed by all metrics (unique users and page views) - Bret Taylor
nice to hear it in offical way, thanks Bret. - Serbay Arda Ayzit
@Bret, tell us approx. # of ff users from Turkey :) - Serkan Ünsal
auto-translate (server side) is the next killer feature - translations aren't always perfect i know, but it's better than nothing (or learning all the other languages) - Chris Heath
Please just keep FriendFeed up, don't let it die. This is absolutely the best thing you can do for Turkey. - AlpB.
leave friendfeed alone!!!! - sera aktüre
#hebelek - Umut Gökbayrak
Thank you Bret. - Dedegi
I read an article about Turkey in Psychology Today recently. It seems the population in general is very forward-looking and eager to prove their modernity to the rest of the world. Like :). - LANjackal
bret gardaş biz olmasag FF batardı ha. Bizede bi sakal atarsın artıgın feysin verdiği manilerle ? - Çağatay " SKYLAB " Şama
F for Friendfeed ! - yicit
uvv very provoking :) we love sharing :) - Taylan Demirkaya
Kıymetimizi bil Bret, biz sana bazen kızıyoruz ama senin iyiliğin için onlar. FB'deki sarışın oğlana tiggat et, iyi şeyler duymuyorum onunla ilgili. - mcd
Funny how some countries just take over some social networking sites. Like Orkut in Brazil and FriendFeed in Turkey. - Gabe
I love Bret's Turkish fan club! - Stephen Mack
we are a veeeeeeery communicative nation, that is all:) and we love sharing:) - Neşe
ah bi de konuşsan neler söyleyecen ama, tek laf yok. teşekkürler de Alah razı olsun de, milletçe bir tepki koyduk mu facebook geri satar valla.... - Serbay Arda Ayzit
FYI and as a side-note to my earlier comment about translation; gmail offered to translate Serbay's recent comment as it came through my email notifications... here's the turkish > english translation: "What you talking ah bi de söyleyecen, but not a single word. Thank you also get consent Alah, the nation do we put a response back to facebook sells valla ...." --- i'm guessing there's some slang or something in there that's not translatable ... however, I still don't really even get the gist of what Serbay's saying. :-( - Chris Heath
:D I really don't know what to say (: - mcd
@chris :) please do not use google translate, it makes a horrifying translation, probably because the Turkish syntax is very different than English. Yet, it is very true that there was a lot of slang in Serbay's comment, no translator algorhythm would solve:) he simply was commenting on the fact that Bret did not really say anything about or commented on the situation, he just presented it:) apperantly serbay was expecting a thank at least, on behalf of Turkey:) - Neşe
Bret, come visit turkey and we will show you the best food around :) and also you might find some really good tech startups. ps. did you know every startup in turkey has a belly dancer ? it help keeping the spirits up :) - denizoktar
@gabe zoruna mı gitti - Emre Savaş
Neşe, thanks for the summary. And I did notice the poor quality of the translation, and that is part of why I posted it. I just found it cool that the option was right there in my email. Google noticed that the language was not english, realized that it was turkish, and then offered to translate it for me all in one simple click. With these types of features and capabilities that we have now we have come so far, and it is exciting to see how far things will get as time goes on. I hope one day in my lifetime google translate will work 'good enough' because the language barrier is powerful and should be solved - for the good of humanity. - Chris Heath
Today at lunch at Facebook, a good friend reconfirmed Turkey is still in top 10 countries globally for Facebook - Aydin Senkut
Turkey is the biggest user of FriendFeed on the planet ;) - Orlando Pozo
Onur, interesting. - Orlando Pozo
turkey is huge for us too.. but.. the female to male ratio from turkey is like 1/100 :( through turkish men seem quite motivated, using translators to talk in any language - t toring
the issue though is that turkish women participate WAY less resulting in an imbalance. i havent run the numbers but i can safely assume 95% of the turkish traffic is male. is this typical? - t toring
umm... well no because browsing around clearly the turkish men are not engaging with other males but women from other countries. when i say "assume" i mean without running reports.. simply browsing around.. so its not really an assumption. just like when u walk into a bar you can tell whether its frequented by a particular kind of people, you dont need to actually do a count or survey - t toring
Onur i think you misunderstood.. i am talking about the traffic on a site i run.. - t toring