Quick review: Rejaw. Do we have the Twitter killer?

August 7, 2008

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I signed up for the new microblogging service Rejaw today.  In a nutshell, it seems like the best of Twitter and Plurk put together. Rejaw interface

It has:

  1. A Twitter like stream, which is better than Plurk’s annoying timeline;
  2. An easy way to reply to someone else’s comments, and see the other replies, which makes for much better conversation.
  3. Rejaw Radar, which is a Twhirl like desktop interface.
  4. APIs that check your Gmail and Facebook accounts to look for friends.Rejaw radar

It does not have:

  1. An API that checks your Twitter list to look for friends.
  2. A way (that I’ve found at least) to @ someone and let them know it. Perhaps the reply function makes that less needed.
  3. Editing a message after you send it. (I think this is a Plurk exclusive.)
  4. A mobile app, which I have to think they are working on.

I’ve believed for a while that Twitter is vulnerable to being the next Friendster. While Rejaw be the one to take them down? It’s possible. Good early start. Interestingly, this is also built in Ruby on Rails (like Twitter), so we’ll see if a massive influx of traffic is well handled.

If you want to follow me on Rejaw, it’s http://rejaw.com/jtobin.  See you there.

What do you think of it so far?

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Posted by Jim Tobin | Filed Under Social Media News, Blog 

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4 Responses to “Quick review: Rejaw. Do we have the Twitter killer?”

  1. Maria Reyes-McDavis on August 7th, 2008 9:00 am

    Rejaw definitely looks like it has potential, whether or not it will replace Twitter is another story. Hopefully it widens the horizon a little for the micro-blogging arena :-)

  2. Patrick on August 7th, 2008 9:28 am

    Something like this would be great to consider. I have signed up for just about every thing out there just to check it out and get my user name in but for all practical purposes Twitter is where the majority of the traffic is in regards to microblogging. No, it’s not the best but would you rather eat mediocre food at a gathering of good friends or sit by yourself in a fancy restaurant. Ok, that is not the best analogy because I would like to have some “me time” in a fancy resteraunt but we are talking about a communication medium here. If I sign up for this more than likely I’ll play with it for a little bit but will eventually wane off of it and stick with Twitter mostly.

    I’ve just about had it up to here with too many social networking services. It’s like going to a party and trying to decide which circle to stand in and at the same time they are building more rooms on to the house. Let’s find some way to standardize in the social networking arena. It’s getting out of hand.

  3. Philip Campbell on August 7th, 2008 9:35 am

    nice little breakdown there jim! - you got my pushmyfollow! :)
    Philip Campbell’s last blog post..ping.fm, blip.tv and now blip.fm

  4. Sean on August 9th, 2008 8:17 pm

    @Patrick - I was just thinking the exact same thing! http://tinyurl.com/5c2vum

    Sean’s last blog post..Microblogs, status update services… please listen up

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