Pownce , the Twitter clone we loved to hate is shuttering it's service December 15. The blog announces that the code and coders have packed their bags for Six Apart. Leah Culver and Mike Malone will become part of the engineering team there. Pownce came into the scene with well entrenched competitors, but seemed to feel that they brought something new to the table. Unlike Twitter's simple text messages, they added photos, video, events to the mix. They never seemed to be able to gain market share, however. For us, it was just to annoying to be bombarded by photos and video. Pownce added bulk to the incredibly lightweight Twitter but the audience seems to feel that less is more.
Goodbye Pownce - Twitter's zaftig twin bites the dust
Pownce , the Twitter clone we loved to hate is shuttering it's service December 15. The blog announces that the code and coders have packed their bags for Six Apart. Leah Culver and Mike Malone will become part of the engineering team there. Pownce came into the scene with well entrenched competitors, but seemed to feel that they brought something new to the table. Unlike Twitter's simple text messages, they added photos, video, events to the mix. They never seemed to be able to gain market share, however. For us, it was just to annoying to be bombarded by photos and video. Pownce added bulk to the incredibly lightweight Twitter but the audience seems to feel that less is more.
