Twitter Alternatives - Pownce Or Plurk?
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?
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Comment by Codes on 10 July 2008:
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.
Comment by vance on 25 June 2008:
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..
Comment by keith watkins on 23 June 2008:
I am using Plurk…
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Comment by Not John Chow on 10 June 2008:
I am a twitter member but, I am rethinking my need to micro blog. I think that a better use of my time would be to walk along the river or sit under a tree.
Comment by Top Rated on 10 June 2008:
I just signed up fro plurk the other day, and it is going to take a little getting used to. That’s not going tp be their problem though. It’s gaining enough traction as the second girl to the party to unseat twitter. That names not helping either. What exactly is a “plurk”?
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Comment by PPC on 10 June 2008:
Both these services need work. Twitter is down half the time and Plurk is worse than those Facebook apps annoying you.
Comment by Goran Website on 9 June 2008:
Twitter needs to do something about it uptime and we would not be looking for alternatives.