The Battle for Micro-Blogging: Twitter vs. Pownce
Jul 5th, 2007 by Dan Blank
TechCrunch outlines the most recent battle between micro-blogging platforms, in this case: Twitter vs. Pownce:
“The main differences: Twitter is mobile-ready, allowing users to receive friend requests and new messages via text message. And Pownce gives users more flexibility in communicating by allowing messages just to friends. Pownce also allows different kinds of messages - file transfers, events, links and plain text messages (Twitter allows text and links only). There’s no reason, though, that users will use both. They’ll go with one or the other, or neither.”
This form of communication is still in the early stages, and the winner could find themselves with a huge community, and a boat-load of cash (when they sell it to Google.)
Update: More from Robert Scoble.
twitter sound a lot like pekamo but i e-mailed one of the peekamo admins and they said theyre implemening a way you can tag photos and videos while offering free text messagin between computer and phone. its basically a mobile social network but better. http://peekamo.com/
Thats sick. i actually signed up for peekamo, and its pretty cool. cheap too. SAFE!!!!!!!!!!!! doesnt have the vidoe optionyet though.
peekamo is a social network too.