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Which micro-blogging host do you use?

Twitter or Identi.ca?

Micro-blogging is THE thing with regards to promotion of your sites, social networking and keeping in touch with your mates.

Personally, I prefer Twitter although I do have an account on Identi.ca but, I believe, Twitter is more user friendly.

But which host do you prefer? Where do you stand? Have your say in the debate below!

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Contender One: Twitter

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'Twitter is a privately funded startup with offices in the SoMA neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. Twitter started as a side project in March of 2006.' Source: Twitter About Us

The Facts:
- It's Free!
- If you use Twitter, you Tweet.
- You have 140 characters in length to get to say what you're up to.
- Created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey.
- It's known as the 'SMS of the Internet'.
- Estimates of the number of daily users vary.
- It uses API or application programming interface.
- In February 2009 a Compete.com blog entry ranked Twitter as the third most used social network.
- The service has experienced outages resulting from traffic overloads due to its increased popularity.

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Then try twitgether

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Twitgether is a full featured twitter client for social networks.

Use your twitter account in your Gmail account!

By using your account I mean you can:

Follow/Unfollow
Tweet
Reply
Block
Favourite
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Integrated URL shorten services

In your Gmail account, go to SETTINGS.
Now click on LABS
Scroll down to the bottom of this page and enable Add any gadget by URL, click SAVE
Now go to GADGETS
and enter this URL: https://twittergadget.appspot.com/gadget-gmail.xml

Then all you have to do is authorise your twitter account and/or sign into Twitter and you're all ready to go!

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Contender Two: Identi.ca

and in the blue corner!

'Identi.ca is a micro-blogging service based on the Free Software Laconica tool.' Source: Identi.ca About.

Facts:
- It's free!
- Instead of 'tweets' you send 'dents'. (Doesn't have quite the same ring to it..)
- It uses Laconica or something based on it.
- You can feed your dents into Twitter if you wish.
- Identi.ca uses groups much the same way as Twitter uses the hash (#) tag.
- It launched on July 1st 2008
- It is owned by Control Yourself, Inc

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Yes, Twitter is definitely the best :)

DecoratingforEvents says:

Twitter all the way!

Posted October 03, 2010

hollikuru says:

I like identi.ca well enough, but Twitter is far more friendly. More people use it, more people for me to talk to. I can't say I know a whole lot about open-source, coding, or anything, whereas most of identi.ca is focused on all that.

Posted September 10, 2010

inkserotica says:

Definitely Twitter! Nothing to attract me to Identi.ca at all.

Posted October 08, 2009

mulberry says:

I don't microblog too much, but when I do it's definitely Twitter. I just think that if I'm going to do it I may as well use the service that has the largest audience potential.

Posted May 23, 2009

NanLT says:

I'd never heard of identi.ca until now.

Posted May 22, 2009

spirituality says:

In these things it's not just about functionality, but also about reach. Right now THE microbloging platform is twitter and I hadn't even heard of the other ones. So I go for twitter. That may change. These things change often online.

& I love that I can send my tweets as updates to facebook - means my facebook account is updated without me even logging in there.

Posted May 19, 2009

Janusz says:

To tell you the truth I have never tried anything else. Twitter works well for me though.

Posted May 19, 2009

No way, I think Identi.ca knocks spots off Twitter

Rowan Thorpe says:

I always use identi.ca, but with a clone-account on twitter. I've setup my identi.ca account to clone all my dents to tweets, so no problem with the "audience potential" problem. The 2 real deciding points are that identi.ca has extra functionality that twitter doesn't, and is Free(dom), Free($$), Open, can easily be federated, etc...

Posted August 30, 2010

Vitalik says:

I tweet to http://twitter.com/itransition when I have any corporate news like press releases issue, events or appointments. In case if I have some private ideas about programming or software I post to http://identi.ca/itransition/

Posted January 05, 2010

Aldrik.net says:

For me identi.ca, because it is open source & support openid

Posted November 18, 2009

 

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