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Attack of the Twitter Clones: A look at their traffic, funding source and revenue models.
- tialys 18y agoInteresting... the ones that charge seem to be doing the worst -- even if they add value with the cost.
- Shamiq 18y agoI guess they aren't adding enough. Or perhaps the lack of scarcity in the market is causing them to do worse.
- dshah 18y agoTraffic for many of these sites is much lower than I would have expected. Looks like HN might get more traffic than several of them.
- frankus 18y agoI was thinking about building a service on top of BrightKite, but at 1/20th the number of visitors vs. Twitter I'm not sure. Are there any other location-based social networks with a published API? Loopt seems to see itself more as a program and less as a platform.
- ujeezy 18y agoThey missed 3jam, which is for group-texting rather than microblogging, but seems to deserve a place in that list