Dave Winer: Twitter vs. Pownce
March 3rd, 2008 | by Brad King |In keeping with my continued frustration re: multiple social media applications, Dave Winer has a post — written after users responded to his initial post about mobile SMS social networks — that examines the distinction between Twitter and Pownce.
He ends with the predictable problem with social media: fragmentation.
In blogging there are many platforms and related technologies. They all work differently and appeal to different groups of people. I suspect that’s what’s going to happen here.
He has a much rosier view about this than I do (or, his post isn’t as fatalistic as I tend to be), which is fragmentation eventually splits the resources of both companies — and inevitably, one will end up falling by the wayside or we continue to have two divergent communities developing.
