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Streem is a new micro-blogging tool that would be likened more to Tumblr than Twitter, but even the distinctions between Streem and Tumblr are noteworthy. I read Streem's about section and saw that the site's creator, Imran Zaidi, is hoping to do five things with the site. One of those things is to flatten the playing field between bloggers and commenters, making comments more of an integral part of one's content. I didn't fully understand what that meant until I tried out the site.
As I mentioned, Streem's setup is pretty similar to Tumblr, so when you first get started, you have the option of adding a note, and update, an image, a link, a video or a quote. All of your entries are shown in a colorful and elegant manner. Design is very important to Streem's experience, as with Tumblr as well. There's a Universe tab that lets you see the entries from the entire network, and it's quite simple to reply to any of these. The comment appears just below th original entry as part of the micro-bogging stream.
So that's what Zaidi meant.
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Even when you view a user's public stream, you have the option of viewing and collapsing its associated comments, so the responses from others do in fact become an integral part of the conversation. If that seems like a moot point, consider Twitter, where replies aren't threaded or connected at all. The only way to see a halfway comprehensive view of your direct replies is to click on the Replies tab, and try to think back to your original update that pertains to whatever replies you have received. And Tumblr doesn't really have a comment system at all, when makes its micro-blogging experience rather solitary.