Breaking - Pownce is gone!
Pownce, one of the twitter alike attempts, was hyped very high but just announced it will be shut down.
We are sad to announce that Pownce is shutting down on December 15,
2008. As of today, Pownce will no longer be accepting new users or new
pro accounts.To help with your transition, we have built an export tool so you can
save your content. You can find the export tool at Settings > Export.
Please export your content by December 15, 2008, as the site will not
be accessible after this date.Please visit our new home to find out more:
http://www.sixapart.com/pownceOur thanks go out to everyone who contributed to the Pownce community,
The Pownce Crew
This makes me wondering how long twitter will last, under current economic condition? Twitter and what twitter represents are considered a revolutionary way of communication, expressing, going social and killing blogs. However, there is no sigh of how twitter can monetize its service, nor the twitter users to monetize from it. After all, money is the fuel to propel and sustain a business and people who doing business with, and investers’ packets. Free loading will have an end, sooner or later, sadly.
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This is what everybody has been tweeting about. It is surprising why Six Apart would acquire Pounce and immediately close shop.
I feel more optimistic about Twitter’s survival. Though it hasn’t yet monetized the service, I don’t think it is very difficult. A naive way would itself be having Google ads on each user’s page. The hash pages are so frequently updated and visited.