Pownce Refugees Looking For Similar Sites

  • Posted on: December 6th, 2008
  • 5 Comments

Pownce is shutting down on December 15th and members are looking for similar sites. Well there is many microblogs but major microblogs I would recomend to Pownce refugees would be

Twitter – which is the most popular microblog used now by millions.

Plurk – not popular as Twitter but more conversational and has a lot more to offer then Twitter such as picture and video uploading, the only thing Plurk lacks would be the clients. Plurk does not have official API.

ReJaw – not bad microblog has lots of stuff and uptime so far is 99% unlike Twitter 95%
Pownce refugees I hope you find microblog that suits you, my guess Plurk would be the best if you are looking for conversation via microblog.

  1. scott said on December 7th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    You may want to check out http://yonkly.com

    It’s the first niche-microblogging platform with twitter integration.

    Best part. They’re a bootstrapped, small team! Go underdogs!

  2. Mike Templeton said on December 7th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    From the developments I’ve seen so far, I’d actually recommend Topixz, a project by a Pownce user who is going to try to emulate what Pownce was and improve on the things it wasn’t. It’s functionality will probably be the closest thing to Pownce for those refugee users looking for a new home.

  3. live crunch said on December 7th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

    @scott: I know about yonkly but yonkly now switched too multi.microblog

  4. Heidi A. Cool said on December 8th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

    Given that many of us Powncers are social media junkies, many are already on Twitter, Plurk etc., yet we’re looking for ways in which we can continue to have the long media-rich discussions that were unique to Pownce.

    Some are dabbling with Vox, which has a Pownce group, many are also using Friend Feed and posting to the Pownce Exiles room. While we wait to see how Topicx turns out we’re also able to have longer discussions on Pownce Refugees which we’ve created on Ning, many users are posting their profiles and having conversations on Post Pownce and we’re able to export our friend’s profiles via the Pownce Friend Saver.

    I think I speak for many us in saying that we’re really going to miss the superb user interface and feature set of Pownce, but it’s also been good to see how the Pownce community has been rallying to find ways to continue to keep in touch.

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