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Building a Better Twitter

businessweek.com — A host of rival sites allow users to share short messages like Twitter, but offer unique features such as picture-sharing or private groups.

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  • jinky32, on 11/07/2008, -1/+15interesting article. i'd like to know how twitter are going to make money
  • DigSomeMore, on 11/07/2008, -1/+15The site has potential...we will see
  • Kairon, on 11/07/2008, -1/+13interesting article, i need to learn more about twitter :)
  • vikramdeo, on 11/07/2008, -1/+11you should check out the blog twitip.com by the guy who is behind problogger..nice initiative
  • Surferess, on 11/07/2008, -1/+6dude, not like this. You are doing it wrong.
  • AceGibson, on 11/08/2008, -1/+5To build a better Twitter you need to build better Twits.
  • Bloodwine, on 11/08/2008, -1/+3poop is coming out
  • nunofgs, on 11/08/2008, -1/+3Here's a better twitter: give us back our free SMS.
  • joshualamgroup, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2there's ads on the japanese twitter (twitter.jp), but they're afraid to add ads on the english version for fear of losing their users.

    I agree though, as those ads can't be making a lot of money. They should perhaps offer a premier account, for example, if they aren't willing to serve ads.
  • joshualamgroup, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2Don't think Twitter's servers can cope with pictures, although there are groups on Twitter (Japanese).
  • boodog, on 11/08/2008, -1/+3Blip.fm is cool ... is .FM becoming the new domain for startups? I also saw on LifeHacker Sleep.FM a smart alarm clock.

    Last.fm though is my favorite .FM especially now with that firefox toolbar/add-on! Forget what it's called?
  • nafnosseb, on 11/09/2008, -1/+2If it is integrated cool.
    I will not use a competing service because it is difficult to find same friends and get them to add you on all other services. The user base on others is too small. Ping.fm can update many services but you still have to monitor all those you use.
  • steviesteveo, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1Buried for spam signature
  • CreativeGuy, on 11/08/2008, -2/+3Mehhh... Too much noise out there as it is. We need to turn the volume down on social networking.
  • diggdatt, on 11/10/2008, -1/+2Anything to kill Twitter is good. People posting about them releasing egg farts or other stupid ***** is totally annoying.
  • OneNaturalOne, on 11/08/2008, -2/+3these comments suck
  • futrsenator, on 11/08/2008, -1/+2some people get it, some people dont.
  • teh_spazz, on 11/07/2008, -1/+2Hopefully the sites will have the necessary bandwidth.
  • tiberone, on 11/08/2008, -2/+2Every website out there offers picture sharing and private groups now. There's just too many trendy start-ups out there that do the same thing as every other site; why bother?

    ***** social networking, seriously.
  • dumbintellect, on 11/14/2008, -1/+1this seems pretty cool. i’ll be sure to try it out.

    i think you might also be interested in: http://www.vingtalk.com/cpp
  • spudsstuff, on 11/08/2008, -2/+2What is wrong with Twitter just the way it is
  • jasonparker22, on 11/08/2008, -1/+1 If you want information sharing, USE THE REAL THING: facebook.com or family-mingle.com why be limitted by 140 characters ?
  • moptop152, on 11/09/2008, -1/+1The more things that integrate Twitter, the more it will crash, like we can take any more of that...
  • AriaStar, on 11/08/2008, -3/+2But are there iPhone apps?

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