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Our pals over at Gapers Block uncovered a site called Wooxie (and also win for "best headline"), a locally-based Twitter competitor that takes the concept a few characters longer. It looks...exactly like Twitter. While we're all for local businesses making good, we're guessing the striking similarities between the two interfaces could eventually lead to a cease & desist order.
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i signed up just to see what it is... looks like you select categories of interest (between 1 - 15 interests) and then it suggests friends (called fans) based on those interests.
then after you follow a few people.. yeh.. it looks exactly like twitter.
It's not like Twitter has never had competition -- there was Pownce, which was actually a better, more full-featured version of Twitter, but that shut down. There's also Plurk, which is a more abstract version of Twitter that centers more on conversations centered around the initial post than just a flurry of posts. There are also a bunch of business-centered Twitter ripoffs out there that I've seen, but can't recall the names of.
We use Yammer at our office. It's pretty much Twitter with restricted access so we can talk about business-related stuff and the public can't see.
These all sound like things you'd buy at Ikea.
Have we really run out of English words?
Try registering a URL for an English word. At least when you make the word up, chances are nobody else has already taken its Web address.
Cool it's a Chicago company and all, but how do they expect to overtake Twitter where there seems to be no real compelling benefit and Twitter has no cost?
it functions like twitter, and the layout looks just like twitter's. sigh. cmon guys, couldn't you at least make it look different?