Twitter vs Pownce | Four20: "I have been using both Twitter and Pownce for a couple of months now. Most of the time I looked at both Twitter and Pownce as the same service. Yes Pownce was slower than Twitter and yes Twitter has more outages than Pownce. The more I use it the more I begin to understand the community that uses the service. This is what makes the two services different," writes Doug.
Helge: I try to think that Pownce is different and I'd like to use it in a different way. I'm a frequent Twitter user but tend to forget what Pownce might be good for. I've not yet found my Pownce voice. Outages? I didn't notice that while I use it less than Doug, I guess.
"Being a Digg user I learned about Pownce before Twitter, so I got a Pownce account first. Only having 2-5 friends on Pownce didn’t keep me interested enough to keep using the service. Then a couple of months ago I went through and began adding friends of friends. I looked at it like ‘if they’re friends of my friends, they might share some similar interests’. The outcome was great. I was meeting more and more people and I learned that these websites were basically social networks. Until then I hadn’t really looked at it in that way," Doug continues.
Helge: I've a Digg account but never really started using it. Twitter did come first, then Jaiku and Facebook, and Ning is also a part of my social media toolbox. Pownce is the last one. Still figuring out what I want to communicate through Pownce.
I began to see the potential of Pownce as a source of content. People post links to articles, pictures, and media that they are reading/watching that they liked. Using threaded comments was a cool feature too(since twitter didn’t do this). It is nice to put something up there and have one place for everyone to comment/respond.
Helge: "As a source of content..." I think the microblogs are rapid news sources. I'm connected to thousands of people around the globe through various Social Media sites. How much do I know about the individuals writing, posting, twittering, jaikuing, facbooking and Powncing? For me writing "traditional blog posts" about them brings the people closer. I learn things through writing. Hopefully people learn things about me through my blogs and microblogs.
Read more on Doug's blog.
Bio about Doug
My name is Doug, but you may know me as Four20. I am a geek and a stoner that works at a pizza joint. When I’m not at work(or sleeping) I’m on the internet. . .monitoring RSS feeds. . .digging stories. . .and watching/listening to podcasts.
Background
I first learned how to build a computer within the first month of high school. For the next four years I cleaned up viruses on the machines, upgraded the hardware and pieced together broken machines to make new ones. It was my sophomore year when I smoked pot for the first time. . .and ever since I have enjoyed learning as much as possible about both.
I have been on the internet since Aol 2.0(3-4 months before 3.0 came out). During the first dot-com days I remember learning how to build and repair computers at school. . .and in my senior year I began learning HTML.
I had a job at a Usenet(newsgroups) company where I did support(and some administration) for almost 3 years. During this time the internet was cracked wide open to me. I learned about this entire culture that I knew very little about before.
Fast forward to today and I am the computer guy at work and with family. . .as well as involved in web publishing.
Purpose
This website will be a ‘home base’ for everything about me. . .Fou20. I participate in many web 2.0 communities as well as publish content on a few websites of my own. . .and this will be a good place to link to all of my stuff.
Contact
If you would like to contact me with a question, comment, tip or anything else. . .please do so. Click here to contact me.
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