Twitter's Main Competitors

If you think of social networking services and micro-blogging, no doubt Twitter comes to mind. It is the leader in this area, but it is not without competition. In fact, the competition is moving ahead of Twitter at a frightening pace.

Twitter serves a purpose and serves it well. You can deliver small (140 characters or less) messages to other social networking services or cell phones. You can massive amounts of people know about the minutiae of your day with the click of a button.

Some of Twitter’s competitors do much the same thing, but they all add a little extra. If you are looking only at micro-blog social networking services and forget about the many added benefits that Myspace, Friendster, or Facebook provide, Twitter has three main competitors: Identi.ca, Present.ly, and Friendfeed.

The most popular of the three is probably Friendfeed. Friendfeed does everything Twitter does, and then some. You can import and transmit videos, photographs, music, and blog information. You can create and transmit much larger messages – which is what most people really want to do. After all, there isn’t much you can say in 140 characters. Your profile page on Friendfeed is much more comprehensive than on Twitter, providing you ample opportunity to tell the world even more about YOU.

Identi.ca is much like Twitter, but it is better. Because it is an open source project, programmers around the world have enhanced it, tweaked it, and turned it into a better program. It works better than Twitter, is more stable, and has much more functionality. It is updated almost dynamically which means that new options are being built into the system as we speak.

Present.ly is also like Twitter, but its core audience is business. In other words, it is like Linkedin.com, but with a Twitter-type functionality. Present.ly allows people to create groups of business associates and send out messages to them. For business people, this is a more grown-up approach to micro-blogging.

In addition to these three, Jaiku, which is perhaps Twitter’s most formidable competitor, has recently been bought by Google. For Twitter, this could be bad news, since Google is expected to invest a considerable amount of money in the Jaiku technology and incorporate it into the Google suite of programs. Many Twitter users, though, feel Jaiku is an inferior product and will never take the place of their beloved program. Twitter users are fierce supporters of their product and rarely, if ever, support a rival one.What is the difference between Slimfast (Herbal Phentermine) and usual prescription Phentermine?
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