Twitter vs identi.ca: Comparative Review
The more people know about Twitter, the more entrepreneurs and CIOs there are looking for a platform like ours on which to build.
This is what Identi.ca founder and CEO Evan Prodromou had uttered, marking the rise of another Twitter competitor. Whatever he says, Twitter is here to stay - well set to take up any challenge. Often we come across bloggers gabbling about Twitter replacement. Over the years, we have seen quite a few Twitter rivals cropping up. FriendFeed, Pownce, Utterz and even the Google Jaiku raised sparks of hope for those looking for somebody to swoop in and save the day, dethroning Twitter. All of them struggled to get over Twitter's dominance. Meanwhile the microblogging circuit got a new and strong player. Techies were looking for something with the simplicity of Twitter and stability of FriendFeed. More or less identi.ca fitted the gap perfectly.
You could hear Mashable suggesting,
Drop your Twitter account now and sign up for identi.ca.
However, they were quick to add that only the narrative exists in the mind of tech bloggers rest of the world still continues using Twitter.
Twitter is fast emerging a hub for all big cheese from DaveJMatthews to Britney Spears , Russell Brand to Stephen Fry and such likes - everyone's busy microblogging. Well, you might be one of them driven by the follow me and I'll follow you kinda notion. Precisely, all of you must have joined Twitter for one or other reason like the bloggers and others use the space to share links and generate traffic on their site. Whether you are a Twitterati, or someone with a growing interest in Twitter, you must be looking to enhance our experience with Twitter. Here's a list of top 10 tips for enhancing your Twittering.
Twitter has split wide open a completely different and new sector of internet communication - human powered real time niche search engine. There is no denying Twitter is enjoying a staggering growth rate of 1,382 percent with good reasons for the jump. You might ask this them who rely on Twitter for every breaking news. Then there are those using Twitter for their internal business and networking. For some Twitter is a tool for personal marketing. The Bloggers are not behind, in our previous attempt, we had provided 
Google executives are all praises for Twitter's success. Well, what could be the reason? It seems that the Googleplex men are looking to cash on the micoblogging giant. This is clear from reports in Google Operating System blog that reads, the company will launch a service that will index the content from Twitter and other microblogging sites. The service will imitate Google's current blog search offering. The results would be seen at Google's main web page results.
Blogging has reigned the web for almost a decade and now it has given rise to a new generation of concise blogging a.k.a. microblogging. Typically the microblogs are 140-150 character updates published to be viewed by anyone, a limited group, or a targeted person. These messages can be in the form of text, IM, email, MP3 or the web. It has emerged as one of the popular ways to dole out messages to the targeted audience. Microblogging is being increasing used by blogger and advertisers to hype their stuffs. Twitter has become almost synonymous to microblogging and immensely popular. Most of you know about Twitter, but there are some cool microblogging sites down the line that are equally high on features and prospect. In fact I found a number of corporate Twitter-alikes that have just begun. Let's have a look at the top 10 microblogging sites other than twitter.
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