The Microblogging "Lucha libre"

OK, since the release of Google trends for websites I guess, this was a graph waiting to be posted ... and perhaps it already has been(?), somewhere. In any case, here is a graph of Microblogging "Lucha Libre" (free fight).

Interestingly, despite the frustrating downtimes Twitter has been facing lately, it still reigns supreme. Whats more, others are no where close! One thing to note is that for the last few weeks twitter's trend has been downwards. As much as I love Twitter, I am afraid that it may be losing its momentum, unless they turn around quickly. Personally, it seems like there are fewer conversations happening there right now.

What appeals me these days is FreindFeed. I find that there is a lot more to discover there than on Twitter. Plus the rooms feature is absolutely fantastic and the whole system is built around conversations. No downtime and a quick turn around time for development and new features makes the site exciting and fun. However, any social network is ofcourse only as attractive as the number of active friends you have on it. And despite its nifty toys, friendfeed still has a much smaller early adopter audience. Ditto with pownce and jaiku. Plurk seems like the new kid on the block.

The following graph shows the fight between all the other players, trying to dislodge Twitters dominating position.

FriendFeed looks like it is going strong! But, I guess only time will tell who will be the microblogging champion!

Comments

[Jason Adams]

I think twitter is going to come out on top, though I agree that friendfeed is the best offering. Twitter has the money now and the talent to fix the problems that shouldn't have happened in the first place. I like plurk's interface, but I think it will be limited to a smaller group and won't gain the wide adoption and interest that twitter has. When I first saw it, I liked it so much that I wrote a few scripts for synching your tweets and plurks. Now I visit them less and less (though my script is still updating my plurks with my tweets.

[Matthew Hurst]

Akshay,

I looked at the same graph, but then realised that stats around microblogging, which involves SMS, are not easy to interpret. Apparently, smsgupshup has 3 times the user base of twitter, but this doesn't show up in any traffic tools.

BTW - I see you are having trouble with Typepad's new (but not improved) editing tool when it comes to images; me too!

[jansegers]

Very US-centric view of the microblog reality...

OK, Twitter is the n°1, but Fanfou, Zuosa and Komoo.cn are probably closing in very fast...

Some microblogs worldwide

This list is a personal choice and based on three criteria: ease of operability, quality of service and experienced functional up-time.

general
twitter.com
jaiku.com
pownce.com
beemood.com
twoorl.com
yonkly.com
kwippy.com
microblogr.com
brightkite.com
plurk.com
secondbrain.com

Chinese
fanfou.com
zuosa.com
komoo.cn

Portuguese
gozub.com

Brazilian
telog.com.br

Indian
snockles.com

Singaporean
tiish.com

Italian
meemi.com

Spanish
khaces.com

Turkish
nolyo.com

French
noumba.net
poodz.com
tapioka.ca

Korean
playtalk.net

Japanese
feecle.jp

German
niimo.com

Polish
blip.pl

Dutch
numpa.nl

Portuguese
gozub.com

Russian
smspr.ru

Arabic
watwet.com

Romanian
cirip.ro

Mexican
mexicodiario.com

Czech
http://drbz.cz

special
tumblr.com
hictu.com
babl.nl
floort.com
help.com
justtell.us
talkaboutadate.com
adocu.com

multiple posting

hellotxt.com

The most exhaustive list I know about is the list made up by thw www.thws.cn/articles/twitter-clones.html

[Akshay Java]

Thanks jansegers, that is an awesome list. I also joined the microblogging community on Ning. Thanks.

[John Makers]

My personel favorit is http://hellotxt.com/. I use to post to www.Twitter.com, www.Jaiku.com, www.secondbrain.com and www.Numpa.nl Makes live easy ;-)

[proquest digital dissertations]

Blogs are good for every one where we get lots of information for any topics nice job keep it up !!!