by Jacob Morgan
Twingr is a new platform that allows you to create your own microblogging communities. It’s pretty much a scaled down version of twitter that allows you to create your own groups for specific tweets. Anyone hear of tweetdeck?
Here’s the demo video from the site:
I’m not too crazy about the idea just yet because to be honest I don’t see the real value in it. I don’t even know if twingr syncs up with twitter. I’m not to worried about groups or organization either, but hey that’s just me. I also don’t think that twingr allows for discovery of any kind. It appears that the only way people can join your groups is if you invite them. I joined and now I am one single user in my group, I can’t find anybody else and nobody can find me, I’m on my own little island.
I can send messages to my gmail contacts inviting them to my group but I don’t think that really matters. Most of my connections don’t exist in gmail. I’m not sure what the business model is and what happens when twitter creates a “groups” feature?
Check out the demo video and tell me what you think, would you use twingr?
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This is pretty much Twitter with groups, but I believe FriendFeed does the same thing (but it’s public). The only concern I have is that most people still don’t know (or don’t use) Twitter, Friendfeed, Plurk, etc. So, while i think group based micro-blogging is cool, I dont’ think it’ll be very useful because of potential adoption problems.
If you are going to use group-based messaging, email listservs, message boards and news feeds are easier with the masses. At Convos (http://www.convos.com), we use email listservs and mailing lists to handle group communication.
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