Twitter.com 그 대안으로써 평가 받는 사이트들은?

심심치않게 언급되는 “웹2.0은 죽었다!”의 논(論)속에서

대표적인 성격의 Twitter.com에 대한 대안(?)으로써 평가받는 사이트들을 집중 조명한 글(“What if twitter dissapeared? Top 40 Twitter alternatives w/reviews”)이 있어 소개한다.

웹2.0 혹은 Twitter.com의 쇄락을 히틀러의 마지막을 비유한 동영상으로 표현했다.

재미있는 비유이다.

1. Jaiku (w/Mini-surveys & group discussions (activity streams), nokia ap)
2. Tumblr (w/Picture, Video & Audio sharing, no character limitations, im agg)
3. Plazes
4. Friendfeed (stumble, netflix & facebook in one)
5. Pownce (w/ Picture & Video sharing,Upload, threaded discussions)
6. Brightkite (w/ real time event update capabilities)
7. Utterz (w/picture, Video & Audio sharing)
8. Ticketapp (Kind of like online stickies)
9. Wassr (Asian Twitter)
10. Diditz (Asian)
11. Smsgupshup (Send messages to groups of people)
12. Poodz (French twitter)
13. Hiktu (w/Video & Audio sharing)
14. beenup2
15. Mytalk.at (beta) (w/multiple language support, w/Photo & Video sharing, google codes)
16. zyb (beta)
17. Plurk (w/ Karma points, journal your life, horizontal timeline )
18. Yobird
19. Twoorl
20. Koornk
21. Youare
22. Statushq
23. Moodmill (w/ smilies)
24. Meshly
25. Podobo (tag rich topic posts)
26. Rejaw (Alpha) (w/real time conversations, Shouts (replies), threaded discussions)
27. Mysay
28. Utterli
29. Present.ly (Enterprise application)
30. Coopapp (Enterprise application)
31. Kwippy (Unlimited character text, twitterclone, threaded discussions, im agg)
32. Zobzee (Twitter & friendfeed combined)
33. Blip.fm (Twitter for music fanatics, also known as fuzz)
34. Yammer (Enterprise application)
35. Dogear (IBM enterprise app, bookmarking)
36. Spotjots sadf**
37. Zannel (w/ Picture & Video sharing)
38. Identi,ca (Little downtime,100 sites share load)
39. Seesmic (Video twitter)
40. Jisco (beta) (w/Multiple Language Support, integrates w/your twitter account, leave notes)

위의 사이트들이 바로 일명 “some of the instant media network alternatives : 소셜미디아(Social Media)의 새로운 유형 또는 대안”으로 평가받는 사이트들이다.

쭉 보면 어떤 것은 그대로 Twitter.com을 복사한 듯한 서비스들도 있지만, 몇몇 사이트을 독장척이고 차별화된 Social network service의 모델을 제시하고 있다.

Twitter.com은
그야말로 “twitter[twt] : 1. (새가) 지저귀다. 2. 재잘거리다(on, away)[about]. ━ 1. (새가) 지저귀며 …을 나타내다; (사람이) …을 속삭이듯 말하다.”에 충실했고, 그 간단함에 사람들은 모이고 “what you're doing?”은 외쳤지만, 그 가벼움이 오히려 허무함을 부르는지도 모르겠다.

이제 특별한 목적/이유가 필요한지도 모르겠다.

위의 40개의 특별한 사이트들 중 다시 그들이 직접 이용을 한 후 리뷰를 쓴 사이트들을 따로 간츄렸는데, 아래와 같다.

• We like Zannel. …
• Spotjots is like Zannel but even better!! …
• Pownce is good for sharing legal files with others on the network. …
• Tumblr is good if you're an Aol Instant message user as it gives you updates while using the service. …
• We also like Brightkite. …
• Moodmill For those who like using yahoo or msn/windows live/hotmail messengers, this site might be right for you. …
• Kwippy is great for various reasons. 1)allows you to write as many characters as you want in your text box messages…
• Yammer currently looks to be the best site application for Corporations. …
• While Twitter allows one to let others know what you're doing, Tumbir let's you share those experiences according to Founder David Karp. …
• Blip.fm looks promising as Fuzz Artist CEO Jeff Yasuda is currently in the works to allow music streems from music giants Warner…
• Mytalk.at also looks like it may become popular for advertisers as you have the ability to embed google adsense …
• We find Rejaw interesting as it allows people to add a desktop application to their computer called Radar which, …
• Jaiku, a google owned company(Since 10/07) is probably Twitter's competitor right now and is setup very similarly to it. …

 

마지막으로 이 글의 첫 문구가 생각을 깊게 한다.

“Could you continue if Twitter went down permanently? Will web 2.0 be the same?”