Twitter or Identi.ca?
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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
In the red corner!
'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.
Join Twitter
So why is Twitter the best?
Find links and add them here!
Why I Love Twitter - O'Reilly Radar
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Why I Love Twitter
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26 Reasons Why I Love Twitter | Social Desire
Shana Albert gives her readers 53 reasons why she more...0 points
Twitter Power
How tos
Useful Websites
Twitter and Ident.ica
Valebrity - Check whether celebrities on Twitter are real or fake.
Twestival - Worldwide gathering of Twitter users raising money for charity.
Friend or Follow - Find who's following you and who isn't.

Identica - A Follow List for Creatives & Social Geeks
Use Twitter and Gmail?
Then try twitgether
twitgether
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
Delete tweets
View profiles
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!
Follow @twitgether on Twitter!
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
Join Identi.ca
Do you prefer Identi.ca?
Then add links here that favour Identi.ca
Identi.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom
Identi.ca is a new microblogging service that laun more...0 points
Okay! Now it's your turn!
Say your piece here
Twitter or Identi.ca?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYes, Twitter is definitely the best :)
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
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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JaguarJulie
Jul 17, 2009 @ 7:27 am | delete
- I really like to use twitter judiciously -- and I try to make my tweets of value -- you know I don't think I had heard of Identi.ca before.
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WindyWinters
May 23, 2009 @ 11:38 pm | delete
- Great Debate! I love Twitter! I subscribe to several news feed tweeters & read the latest news at the same time as tweeting. Haven't heard of Identi.ca, either. :)
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vbright105
May 19, 2009 @ 6:09 am | delete
- I use twitter but then, I've never heard of identi.ca. lol. :)
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Janusz
May 19, 2009 @ 5:19 am | delete
- Three cheers for Twitter :) Well done Carrie, IŽll tweet this on.
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