TwitPic founder tries to pull rug from under Twitter

The creator of Twitpic, the photo-sharing system sitting atop Twitter, has launched his own Twitter clone. Heello [sic] launched last week and looks surprisingly like Twitter, in layout and function. It refers to "tweets" as "pings", and "followers" as "listeners", but otherwise has little to distinguish, or recommend, itself …

[Anonymous Coward]

Good thing Apple doesn't own twitter

They'd be getting sued for stealing their precious design.

Seriously though, come up with an original idea - swapping the profile side is such a stupid way to differentiate; I read left to right, so it's just in the way and feel wrong.

Love the way it's so slow - the el reg effect - more links!

Any idea how many chars you're allowed? Lemme guess - 141?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Ping"?

Apple lawsuit in 10, 9 8...

[Anonymous Coward]

Ping back

Well, Ping is solution looking for a problem, but Apple need to monitize it somehow..so why not through the courts?

I'm surprised there's no an 'express' lane at the county court yet, purely set aside for Apple's army of lawyers to submit suits to. Gits.

[Anonymous Coward]

"15 items or less"

No way would Apple be allowed to use your express lane.

[Anonymous Coward]

And so it begins...

The wonderful Web 2.0 social network dreams shatter in to a dozens of disperate sites as they fight over the limited number of punters who haven't yet chosen a social network. Seen the impact Google+ is having, luring those who never chose FaceBook. The next step will be swarms of "socialists" moving from site to site, as one leaves then their friends follow because you can bet that none of these sites will want to talk to each other properly, they might offer feeds but full integration between themselves? Not bloody likely!

[Russ Tarbox]

I think that happened a few years ago

I'm thinking MySpace ... then everyone I worked with moved to Bebo (it had better photo album features) and then FaceBook appeared ... which won because it had photo tagging.

It's increasingly harder not to have a presence on Facebook if you want to enter competitions for example ... note that most movies now are facebook.com/moviename rather than moviename.com.

[Annihilator]

Go establishment

"some are suggesting its just a complicated protest against the overriding power of the establishment"

Learn the rules people, establishment knows best:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOVaPb2nVys

[Anonymous Coward]

Great....

...all we need is more social networking sites.

Now I've got to go and recreate more false accounts on another bloody system.

Can I suggest Web 3.0 - where adverts, usage tracking, and 'social media' sites are totally banned - anyone interested?

[Anonymous Coward]

Since when ...

Has Twitter been a "colossus "?

[Anonymous Coward]

twitweb

There is just a chance this might succeed, dont forget free is fickle.

What I see as Twitter's big mistake is their new web interface. It has become bloated and resource hungry.

The web interface should be as light and as simple as possible so as to offer cross platform support and run without effort on anything from an atom netbook to a quad core desktop.

It seems no coincidence that the big push from this potential competitor comes the day Twitter switched off its original lightweight web ,

[Alex Walsh]

Heello

Signed up and had a play around after reading this. Lordy it's slow. They reckon 100,000 sign ups a day atm but the only way to find people is through search, the What's Happening tab is disabled (so you can't see what everyone is pinging) due to server load issues.

Feels very slow and lonely atm :)