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Identi.ca is a newly launched micro blogging service that can serve as a good shelter for the long frustrated Twitter Refugees. Yeah, the service some what resembles Twitter but it offers few interesting features that can attract huge number of twitter users.
As the name depicts, it is a twitter identical but has got few extra points over twitter as Identi.ca is in working status. The twitter killer offers support for Jabber IM and OpenID and at the top , allows federated use of its services. Therefore, the service is open for everyone and anyone can enjoy it by making new and unique versions of their own.
The federation of service is what makes it most out standing and unique from twitter.
As for instance if the service goes down in future (start adapting twitter’s prolonged strategy) then they can still keep on tweeting, I mean identing by moving to another self created versions.
Huge number of people were waiting for the launching of this type of service. Blogger and RSS pioneer, Dave Winer, is one of them as as he considered its inauguration day as a happy Christmas Day.
Sigh! to twitter , that is constantly facing new competitors who are busy in pulling its legs and its scalable User base . But it is also a bitter truth that no one is actually trying to quit twitter.
Long frustrated and annoying users keeps on complaining about twitter’s downtime and think that it should be shut down!!, but at the end of the day all geared up to send tweets as soon as twitter manages to come out of its over capacitated problem.
Let’s rewind some of the services that are worthy to use and can give far better facility then twitter. Sweetter, an open source sweet twitter’s clone that considered to be quite smarter then twitter unable to capture twitter’s sizable market notch. Similar is the case with Jaiku and Pownce. Services like Plurk and FriendFeed were giving an impact as they will be able to attract everyone and people might leave twitter for them. But all guesses and hypes seems to be useless as twitter is still ruling the micro blogging world.
Lets keep our fingers crossed for twitter as it seems that one day twitter would be able to gain public confidence and keep itself up in all huge events as they are already working on the issues by collaborating with venture firms and hiring expertise.
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This here is the problem. It took me a pretty good amount of time to get a substantial userbase on twitter since I a) apparently don’t have many friends and b) most of them are not geeky enough to have a twitter account (and those that do haven’t updated it in like… six months).
For example, I like Plurk. It’s very innovative, UI-wise… But… no one I know is there. Plus, there’s no SMS gateway, so updating it on the go for me is pretty impossible since I don’t have a data plan on my phone.
Well Lou,
U r right that other social ntwrking sites arent that much popular among massive sector…
But again ppl are resposile for making a userbase of any community n its very true that they like to stick to a place that offers larger no. of userbase with flexibilty for instance the SMS gateway, as u pointed out.
But we should at least give a chance to any new network especially when our old service face downtime every now and then:)
I absolutely agree. that’s why I signed up for Plurk. And I want to check out identi.ca, but I’m kind of hesitant to have one more micro-blog service that no one I know uses lol… I’ll probably end up signing up today though.