Comments on: The real reason Twitter beat the snot out of Pownce http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2008/12/10/the-real-reason-twitter-beat-the-snot-out-of-pownce/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-real-reason-twitter-beat-the-snot-out-of-pownce Teaching, rebuking, correcting & training in righteous web design. Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:56:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: genepensiero http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2008/12/10/the-real-reason-twitter-beat-the-snot-out-of-pownce/comment-page-1/#comment-4241 genepensiero Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:01:31 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/?p=2213#comment-4241 -- enjoyed this post a lot. miss your updates! blessings. –
enjoyed this post a lot.

miss your updates!

blessings.

]]> By: Tamar Weinberg http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/2008/12/10/the-real-reason-twitter-beat-the-snot-out-of-pownce/comment-page-1/#comment-4236 Tamar Weinberg Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:17:36 +0000 http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/?p=2213#comment-4236 Interestingly enough, I really thought Pownce would win on this. Afterwards, though, I realized that my post, while weighing features, missed the mark: You can have a crapload of features. If you don't have the community, though, you'd completely useless. Pownce missed the opportunity to take advantage of an API early, offer SMS texting, and more early on. They could have capitalized further on their core group of followers if they emphasized functionality over featureset. So yes, you're absolutely right. Initial observations showed Pownce as the clear winner, but over time, I realized that Pownce did nothing for me and Twitter fulfilled everything. :) Interestingly enough, I really thought Pownce would win on this. Afterwards, though, I realized that my post, while weighing features, missed the mark:

You can have a crapload of features. If you don’t have the community, though, you’d completely useless.

Pownce missed the opportunity to take advantage of an API early, offer SMS texting, and more early on. They could have capitalized further on their core group of followers if they emphasized functionality over featureset.

So yes, you’re absolutely right. Initial observations showed Pownce as the clear winner, but over time, I realized that Pownce did nothing for me and Twitter fulfilled everything.

:)

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