Sean Reiser

Inspired by posts from Evo Terra and Eric Rice I have gotten to thinking about how I'm using the social networks and how to rate them.

For me the quality of a microblog is not the number of friends / followers I have; it's the quality of the posts that come out of it. I've noticed that pownce lends itself to more im depth posts, partially since it doesn't have the SMS message length limitations. Also I feel the ability to post replies to messages lends itself to more intelligent dialog.

Pownce feels more like a civilization conversation at a teahouse were twitter feels like a group of people at a popular bar trying to have a conversation. When it comes to using the services it seems that if I am looking for feedback I tend to use pownce. If I'm making random comments I'm using twitter. I suspect if there was a more open API I'd be using twitter less and less.