Another Twitter launches, this time it's called Yappd

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Another Twitter launches, this time it's called Yappd

by Chris Gilmer Aug 14th 2007

Does Twitter really need competition? I suppose it's healthy, but why not try a new type of model that gets people pumped about your service?

Twitter has a good thing going on, their text updating service is easy to use, effective, and it was first to market. Pownce, although a Twitter-esk clone, does provide a few exciting features like that ability to send files besides just text updates. This new release to market called Yappd, although cleanly built, really doesnt offer anything new or special besides picture messages.

With successful products, you are always going to get clones, and blatant rip offs. Check out this site that lists Twitter clones from Germany to China to Hungary.

[via TechCrunch]

Tags: images, message, pownce, twitter, web2, web2.0, yappd

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