Some Perspective on the Twitter Paradigm

A referral in my log lead me to this BBS page which (as far as I can make out) contains links to a number of Chinese Twitter clones:

• fanfau.com
• jiwai.de
• taotao.com
• v2ex.com/ing
• weazone.com/say.do
• wulog.com

I'm guessing this is just the time of the iceberg for Chinese Twitter sites - I wonder if there is an index of all Twitter clones, just to get an idea of how big this new paradigm is. Turns out there is some information here: Twitter Fan Wiki; Wired wrote about some others way back in May 2007.

A cursory eyeballing might suggest that there are certainly 10s of micro-blogging platforms out there, possibly more than 100?. It seems clear that aggregating and analysing this data is going to be a requirement for social media analysis firms throughout 2008 and beyond.

Comments

[jansegers]

I'm trying to catch all those people catching them all.

I have a nice list, but nothing in comparison with the Chinese expert on microblogs: thw (who came out of his own to my microblogs social network at ning and made me really proud of doing something worthwhile).