Comments on: Pownce versus Twitter: And the Loser is MyRagan

By: How to Drive Traffic from "Twitter"?

How to Drive Traffic from "Twitter"? — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:37:11 +0000

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By: Copywrite, Ink.: Creating Conversation: BlogStraightTalk

Copywrite, Ink.: Creating Conversation: BlogStraightTalk — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:05:43 +0000

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By: Poll: Jaiku Wins, But Twitter & Pownce Take the US » The Buzz Bin

Poll: Jaiku Wins, But Twitter & Pownce Take the US » The Buzz Bin — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:16:27 +0000

[...] This should not be a surprise as I have 4 x as many Pownce friends as Twitter “followers,” but Twitter absolutely dominates the marketplace. So I pulled from Pownce, and non Pownce readers favored Twitter. And that my readers really don’t like Jaiku that much. This validates the recent decision to continue using both Twitter and Pownce. [...]

By: Geoff Livingston

Geoff Livingston — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:42:51 +0000

As of 5 a.m., the MyRagan profile is still there, it’s just fallow. If it disappears, it won’t be because I deleted it.

By: Kevin Dugan

Kevin Dugan — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:35:49 +0000

Geoff – I do not disagree with your choice to pull from MyRagan. But why pull the profile off completely and not just simply stop visiting and participating (assuming you were).

Devoting the time and energy to the networks that bring you the most traffic makes good sense. We have to draw the line somewhere. To that end I’m glad that my IT folks at work block some of the sites I would otherwise spend more time at. :-)

That said, I think the marketing bloggers immersed in the latest and greatest are not getting much out of myragan. But I think there are some folks out there that might prefer the walled garden it offers.

By: Geoff Livingston

Geoff Livingston — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:08:54 +0000

Brian, I think you are right. I eventually will move over to Pownce in full, but right now feel that i can’t. With a book coming and so many PR and marketing blogger friends preferring twitter, it just seems hard to drop. Like OB81, I really enjoy the community on Pownce.

By: ob81

ob81 — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:43:26 +0000

Pownce is great man! The community (now at least) has a mature feeling, and people REALLY do help you out over there. I know crap all about coding, and Pownce friends helped me get a site upb from scratch!

It always comes back to the numbers though. Bad MyRagan!

By: Brian Williams

Brian Williams — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:06:29 +0000

Won’t you bail on one of them eventually? Just based on user experience (cleaner design, more — but not too many more — features, etc.) it seems like pownce could quickly grab attention. The only stick is your friends, which means a momentum shift (a trickle of twitters saying “switching to pownce” snowballing into a mass exodus) could be a twitter killer. Why be loyal? It’s not the app. Only time will tell, and I’m a admittedly a lightweight on both (who has 10 seconds every hour to spare?).

By: Pownce : Geoff L.

Pownce : Geoff L. — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:51:54 +0000

[...] both staying, but I've decided to stop participating in MyRagan. Full logic in the link. http://www.livingstonbuzz.com/blog/2007/... [...]

By: Geoff Livingston

Geoff Livingston — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:30:28 +0000

I completely agree, Chris. When I started this thing,plus the poll I saw them as competing. But now after a few weeks of playing with each the networks operate differently and are complimentary. I do enjoy Powncing more because of the conversation and comradery, but see the value in Twitter.