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The Christian Twitter Is Here

Hamilton Nolan — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:26:57 EDT

Do you like microblogging, but always found Twitter to be too full of godless heathens? Well rejoice, because Gospelr is here! It's the Christian version of Twitter, and do we need to explain anything further? Praise god no. The founder says he hopes it will be "effectual in regards to sharing the Gospel," but then admits "I have no idea how Gospelr might eventually be used." Hopefully not by Julia Allison! Let's take a look at the holy activity going on at Gospelr right now:

A bunch of meaningless crap, just like non-Christians! Gospelr should soon be worth billions.

[via Adfreak]

"The Twitter Dome Scandal" a tempest in a teapot

Jackson West — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:20:00 EDT

According to newly suggested house rules, your representatives in Washington will be able to circumvent CSPAN and bore you with canned speeches and mind-numbing rhetoric over live video broadcasting sites like Qik. Why does anyone care? Because John Culberson, R-Texas, tweeted "I just learned the Dems are trying to censor Congressmen's ability to use Twitter Qik YouTube, Utterz etc — outrageous and I will fight them," and blogosphere wingbats raised a hue and cry. Nancy Pelosi, D.-Calif., declined to use her Digg account to promote the story, instead issuing a press release promising to "ensure that taxpayer dollars are not used for political or commercial purposes." Me, I'm just scared that the raging-est blowhards in Washington, the House of Representatives, have discovered Twitter. No good can come of this.

The microbubble in microblogging

Owen Thomas — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:00:00 EDT

If there is a Web 2.0 bubble, it is surely in microblogging, a field popularized by Twitter.. Countless startups are thriving on the myth that sharing yourself online is too hard. Pownce cofounder Leah Culver graces the cover of MIT's alumni magazine. San Francisco's most self-involved Webheads can't stop gabbing about FriendFeed, which, as our intern Alaska Miller smartly explained to his mother, is a place where people who are really obsessed with the Internet can talk to others of like mind. And then there's Plurk, the much-mocked Twitter clone, which has drawn such derision that Web hipsters made up a company and claimed it had bought Plurk.

According to new stats from Hitwise, Plurk, the least cool microblogging startup around, might have the last laugh. Its Web traffic far exceeds FriendFeed's and Pownce's. And yet Twitter, while growing very fast, itself isn't very large. Its imitators are all so small, really, as to barely deserve mention, let alone magazine covers. Microblogging isn't just about very short updates. It's about very small businesses. If I wrote about them in line with their actual worth, this post would have been far shorter than 140 characters.

Plurk, yet another microblogging platform, hailed by The 250

Jackson West — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:20:00 EDT

Not happy with updating your friends publicly via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pownce and Jaiku (and feeding all those updates into FriendFeed)? Then, um, try Plurk, a startup which declares, "We've taken the time, the complexity, and the deep introspection required out of blogging." Also, too, the irony. [The Inquisitr]