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Twhirl Makes Yammer Irrelevant

Sep 12, 2008

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: Reading this news that Loic LeMeur sent me this morning, I see that Twhirl, the social software front end client, now supports any laconi.ca install. If you’re not yet up on laconi.ca , it’s an open source, run it on your own servers version of Twitter. See the flagship install of it at identi.ca. So, to sum that all up: T (Read More)

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Jasongoldberg,

Sep 13, 2008

: Any thoughts on Twirl vs. Yammer?

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Nishith,

Sep 15, 2008

: But it is pretty slow. Seems they should optimize their DB and prepare themselves for the viral growth.

Chewbocka,

Sep 16, 2008

: good to see Twhirl's network of supported services is growing

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Twitter Versus Plurk: The UI Advantage

Jul 31, 2008

ReadWriteWeb When I first reviewed Plurk for ReadWriteWeb, I had only been using this new lifestreaming service for a little while. After using it for much longer, I've realized that there is really just one major difference between Twitter and Plurk - but it's that one difference that makes Plurk so much better.This is a guest post by (Read More)

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Lukefrombuzzle,

Jul 31, 2008

: Is Plurk still alive? I found most people have headed back to Twitter..I just seem to struggle with the way the conversations are 'hidden' unless you prompt them to open...

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Chewbocka,

Sep 05, 2008

: Plurk's UI advantage won't save it when pitted against Twitter's community advantage. At least for me, everyone in my geographical area is on Twitter and not Plurk. So, it's a no-brainer.

Vincent Wright,

Sep 06, 2008

: I'm still warming up to Plurk so, for right now, I'll take the energy of Twitter over the improved UI of Plurk.

Additionally, the abundance of client tools such as Twhirl make Twitter a better bargain, for me...