It’s no surprise that twitter can be a bit unstable from time to time. Twitter is probably the only service I know that’s almost more down than it’s up, and still have a loyal fan base and increase it’s number of users.
But what are the alternatives?
There are a lot of similar micro-blogging services out there, but can they replace twitter?
If you take a look at the various alternatives to twitter are they really an alternative?
Pownce:
About a year ago I wrote a post about Pownce and twitter. I compare the two services, but what really hit me was, that a year ago I wrote that twitter is unstable.
Twitter is still unstable and Pownce hasn’t replaced twitter. Why is that?
Pownce doesn’t have the simplicity of twitter. No one (except a few) has really bothered making any services for Pownce either and perhaps Pownce is just too feature-heavy?!
As always you are welcome to friend me on Pownce.
Plurk:
The brand new microblogging tool is called Plurk and everybody are talking/blogging about it. It’s probably the closest thing at the moment to twitter.
The timeline is very different and takes a little getting-used-to. However when some of your friends plurk, you can respond directly to their plurks by just clicking on it.
Plurk has a clever little extra thing that might be addicting to some users. It’s called Karma. It’s a score and the more you plurk, respong to plurks and add friends, the more Karma you get.
All the big blogger people are plurking. If they like it might breakthrough. Perhaps they should have waited and launched Plurk at some big blogger conference. That’s what twitter and Friendfeed did.
Some might also see Friendfeed as an alternative to twitter, but honestly I haven’t really jumped on the Friendfeed bandwagon yet.
I’m still not sure what to do with Friendfeed, but I would love to know, so if you have any advice or ideas, please don’t hesitate to share.
Which tool do you see as an alternative to twitter? Will you stick with twitter or move to another microblogging service?
I also have Pownce. what pownce actually brings on the table is not to compete against Twitter but to compliment it. As one of the co owner has said; pownce is for sharing “legal” files to your friends. and by the way, pownce creator and owner also uses Twitter. hehe..
You might want to try pownce air (adobe air based app)
I haven’t tried Plurk though.. maybe thats next..
I also have Pownce. what pownce actually brings on the table is not to compete against Twitter but to compliment it. As one of the co owner has said; pownce is for sharing “legal” files to your friends. and by the way, pownce creator and owner also uses Twitter. hehe..
You might want to try pownce air (adobe air based app)
I haven’t tried Plurk though.. maybe thats next..
All this twitter and plurk stuff goes straight over my head. I can’t understand how one or two lines of random information is interesting.
All this twitter and plurk stuff goes straight over my head. I can’t understand how one or two lines of random information is interesting.