Loy Okezie
Earlier in January, Yrn.me’s founder, Ahmad Mukoshy described his “next big thing” as ”a micro discussion platform that allows you to create discussion threads of topics of interest in fewer than 140 char and share with the world in the easiest way.”
Yarnable.com (soon to be launched) is a handy tool for your real time status updates answering the one simple question “What is happening”?
According to Yarnable’s blog:
Quite simple, Yarnable is a free micro-discussion site that allow you to create and share short topics of interest in under 140 characters. It comes with great number of social features such private messaging and friend list.
Yarnable, founded in mid January, 2010 comes in handy for your real time status updates answering the one simple question “What is happening”.
All topics created by users are neatly organised under related categories such as Sports, Movies, Business and even Technology.
Because privacy setting on social sites is often crucial, you can always set your privacy limit from your profile settings allowing you to block or allow public access to your topics. Simple, you can even host private discussions with your network of friends without thirdparty interference.
This impressive web site is coming out soon, will have the 1st private beta release around1st March 2010.
While we wait for this new micro-blogging service out of Northern Nigeria, it’ll be interesting to see how different it would be from Twitter.com, Kukurooku.com, NaijaPulse.com and Gistcaster.com
Already, there are indications that it will look different and unique especially with the categories you can create for different topics. Again, with a lot of issues around privacy (especially on Facebook), it would be nice to actually engage in “private discussions with your network of friends without any third party interference.”
My questions are: Will Yarnable be just another Twitter clone? Will it be unique? Will it impress?
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Not to sound overly deterministic but from that description it sounds like another Twitter clone. We'll have to wait and see exactly what and how it will deliver but personally I don't feel like we need another Twitter clone and some of the sites you mentioned in the post look like just that.
There is already an impressive amount of Nigerians using Twitter, the question I feel is how should Nigerian startups and businesses capitalise on this rather that trying to launch their own version….just my 2 kobo.
Maybe Nigerians should stop Twitter cloning! But it seems this Yarnable guys have something new to offer. However, is Gistcaster still a microblogging service? I checked out the new Gistcaster and it allows more than 140 characters plus commenting too!
What we need is nigerians using APIs to build new services on top of the well-known platforms.
“The leading social networking site in China, renren.com, started out as a blatant Facebook clone – but it now has tens of millions of users.” (Via: ReadWriteWeb http://yrn.me/?6gjm3)
Thanks for the post-review. I'm really working well at it, hopefully to come live on beta this month.
Yarnable is not a twitter clone service, its a 140 char based discussion site built from scratch with more features than just status updates.
Thanks for sharing about this. Glad to learn about them. There are several opportunities for them to, over time, develop a program that fits the needs of their users.
For building reciprocal relationships, we must unquestionably have to consider twitter as the primary supportive tool.Using Twitter as your media of marketing, you can expect a lot, a wide range of customers is a guarantee because of the number of friends you make on twitter. 100′s will follow you each time you follow them.
Let’s just wait and see. It can be an improved twitter clone. After all, developers are copycats+innovators…lol
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good work from you all out there nice. am sure our Nigerian soon will not be left out as we have so many like me out there bravo. but i still foresee joining force as our strength.
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