DISQUS

Chris Brogan: The Great Jaiku Migration of April 10

  • Jay Moonah · 2 years ago
    I must say at least for me, Jaiku so far has been about a zillion times slower than Twitter. Yes, a zillion. Maybe a zillion point two.

    I did manage to subscribe my Twitter feed to Jaiku.
  • annie · 2 years ago
    Both Twitter and Jaiku have issues, neither is ready to handle the influx. No one wants to sit back and wait, though, afraid we'll miss out! It's fun in a way, bouncing around en masse.
    Bet you're right about a third product waiting in the wings winning the prize.
  • Flashman · 2 years ago
    Not for me. Jaiku sent through its mobile confirmation message in under ten seconds (to Australia). Twitter woke me at 5am this morning with an SMSed tweet that was 36 hours old, and which I'd given up on arriving.

    The ability to subscribe multiple feeds to Jaiku is something I'd hoped would make it into Twitter. Ironically, this feature means I am MORE likely to stay with Twitter, since I know that my tweets will get rolled into Jaiku anyway. Along with my blog and flickr feed.

    Just so you know, there ARE people working in broadcast and entertainment who are watching these tools with great interest, and an eye to providing even greater audience interaction.

    http://flashman.jaiku.com/
  • Josh · 2 years ago
    Let's be honest. Leo jumped to Jaiku because of name issues. Scoble blogged about it. Now everyone is jumping ship.
  • drew olanoff · 2 years ago
    Interesting stuff. I've been on Jaiku for a bit and I do like being able to pull in stuff. However, the Twitter API apps have been amazing. I think Twitter is still on a good pace.
  • Shannon · 2 years ago
    I doubt Jaiku will keep up much better than Twitter, and I agree that the ability to pull in feeds is an especially good feature that Jaiku has. and I also agree with Flashman, that this actually makes me more likely to stay with twitter since I know that my tweets will go to both places.

    I also notice that this migration happened recently after it seemed like a big influx of new twitter users came. This reminds me of the church college group who, when the high school group discovered The Coffee Shack, abandoned it for another hangout.

    When I heard Leo talk about moving to Jaiku and saw his tweets about it, I thought about looking at the site. When I saw everyone on twitter talking about it, that's when I decided to sign up.
  • veronica · 2 years ago
    This reminds me of the Great Friendster Exodus of 2002. Those were scary times.
  • Chris Cavs · 2 years ago
    Dunno. I just got used to Twitter, and suddenly because Leo goes, so goes the world? That's not cool, but I guess it's a reflection of the blogging world. All I need is another app on my compy. Ugh.
  • Daniel Ho · 2 years ago
    Dude...you HAVE to migrate if ChrisBrogan says so...

    Don't leave me behind!!!

    Does TXTing Findland involve extra cost? According to my T-Mobile plan, I have a bucket of TXT messages to draw from monthly for sending/receving within Canada and US (domestic). However to TXT Findland, it is $0.15 per sent message. For receiving it is $0.10 or it draws from your domestic bucket of TXT messages.
  • Flashman · 2 years ago
    #8 Chris:

    Haven't you ever seen birds flocking? None more fickle and flighty than the type who Twitter - it's an appropriate name!
  • Eric Rice · 2 years ago
    I can handle slowness only because of Jaiku giving me in terms of a more coherent management of conversations... it's in between twitter and a lite blogging tool. That threading is golden and is the feature I'll put above speed.

    Not like the apps will work with each other anyway. Social standards.
  • roffi · 2 years ago
    I think i'll keep jaiku, but if my friends doesn't wanna hang there, well no point in using it.