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Spreading good ideas with someone you know is one of the simplest things we can do to improve the conversation.

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  Pieter Jansegers replied on 11:48 PM on June 24, 2008
  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 Pieter Jansegers http://microblogs.ning.com
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  Pieter Jansegers replied on 11:51 PM on June 24, 2008
  Microblogging, not just twitter, has become a worldwide phenomenon. Microblogs are changing the world: microblogs are the world's first instant global mass media. They provide an immediate potentially worldwide feedback loop for important information. Pieter Jansegers http://microblogs.ning.com
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  Pieter Jansegers replied on 03:48 AM on June 25, 2008
  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
  
  Pieter Jansegers
  http://microblogs.ning.com
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  Pieter Jansegers replied on 03:51 AM on June 25, 2008
  Microblogging, not just twitter, has become a worldwide phenomenon.
  
  Microblogs are changing the world:
  microblogs are the world's first instant global mass media.
  
  They provide an immediate potentially worldwide feedback loop for important information.
  
  Pieter Jansegers
  http://microblogs.ning.com
  
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  Maryanne Burgos replied on 06:41 AM on August 02, 2008
  I think that Twitter and other microblogging sites take some getting used to. Here is a link to cogdog's wiki that shows when many bloggers finally "got" the usefulness of Twitter.http://cogdoghouse.wikispaces.com/TwitterCycle Maryanne Burgos
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  Maryanne Burgos replied on 10:41 AM on August 02, 2008
  I think that Twitter and other microblogging sites take some getting used to. Here is a link to cogdog's wiki that shows when many bloggers finally "got" the usefulness of Twitter.http://cogdoghouse.wikispaces.com/TwitterCycle
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  Jack Mason replied on 02:04 PM on September 22, 2008
  Twitter is hard to appreciate until one dives in, so here's a best practice in terms of getting started.
  
  Start by following someone you know who's Twitter savvy, and the look at some of the folks who they are following, or being followed by. Build your list of people you follow gradually, and don't forget to offer something simple but interesting. A link, a thought, a point of view.
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Jeff Jarvis: If I knew I’d be rich and so I don’t know. I think that it’s constant surprise, Twitter is a simple little program that lets you put in a 140 character messages from your phone or from the web, it’s micro blogging. I looked at it and I kinda dismissed it but my 16 year old son and webmaster and the genius behind me said “You know Dad no you gotta look at Twitter again, stuff’s going on there” and he was right, it’s really amazing because it’s social blogging, you choose whom to follow and who follows you. It’s public conversation, it captures a kind of zeitgeist of the time. I just saw that Reuters and the BBC are trying to do constant searches on Twitter for words like explosion and evacuation because Twitter becomes the canary in the news coal mine, telling you that people are writing about their lives and if there’s an evacuation right now, they’re gonna tell you that and they’re gonna tell you that before any news reporter would ever know this. So Twitter, this silly thing of 140 characters, what did you have for breakfast, I don’t care what you had for breakfast, suddenly becomes a whole new platform for understanding what’s going on in people’s lives. Who could have predicted that, now the fact that it came from Evan Williams who also was a co-creator of blogger which popularized blogging and changed my life and the world means that I do pay attention to Twitter. But I wouldn’t have guessed it, I think that’s what the internet is about is that when you put out a platform and you see how people use it and when you get surprised you’ve won.

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Jeff Jarvis Founder, BuzzMachine.com; Columnist, The Guardian

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JJeff Jarvis blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting editor and a partner at Daylife, a news startup. He writes a new media column for The Guardian and is host of its Media Talk USA podcast. He consults for media companies. Until 2005, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Prior to that, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune; reporter for Chicago Today.  He is the author of What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009).

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