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A question which is sure to be asked a lot in the coming days or weeks is, “Which of these services should I use?” My main friends from Dragon*Con use Twitter to communicate through the day though they also have pownce apps, and the main difference is the ability to receive new messages as text messages. For a lot of people, I suspect that will be the main reason to stay with Twitter.
For me though, I turn mobile messages off with Twitter except on rare cases. If I want to check Twitter I’ll hit the site up with the phone’s browser. Mostly I use these services as sort of a group IM without the immediacy. I can send announcements telling people about stuff, or asking a question and waiting for my cloud of friends to respond or let the issue float by.
So there are really, in my view, two users - Those who use it for mobile messaging specifically, and those who use it for messaging from the office or computer.
If mobile messaging is your thing, Twitter is still atop the heap. Despite hardware issues and regular downtimes, it’s still the only game in town.
If desktop messaging is your thing, then Pownce is probably going to quickly become your default so long as you can get your friend cloud to make the jump. Sure you could fall back on Facebook, but for me Facebook is way too cluttered for the communication I’m looking for.


I'm Patrick Jarrett. I am a Senior Software Developer for 
