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Shout’Em = Roll your own Twitter

Written on November 25, 2008 – 2:05 pm
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

Want to engage people in conversation but keep them within your tightly controlled domain? Give ShoutEm a try. With no more than a few clicks you will have your own Twitter running on a subdomain like this: http://thenextweb.shoutem.com

Patrick de Laive met the founders of Shoutem earlier this year in Zagreb when they were still focused on Mobile Social networks. Their new focus is to become the Private Twitter network for popular websites and communities. This is a crowded market with companies like Yammer and Twingr doing similar things.

As you will see the templates are easy to edit and customize. For a few dollar more you could even host the conversation on a subdomain of your own domain. That is part of their business model. If you don’t pay you have to live with a few Google Ads. And even those you can customize.

The service looks easy enough to sign-up, requires some basic CSS and HTML knowledge to pimp to your satisfaction and has enough features to keep your audience playing. If you want you could even upgrade (or downgrade depending who you ask) to Pounce functionality with one click. The challenge will be to get people Tweeting on your MicroTweet environment instead of the ‘real’ twitter.

After all; If a tweet is tweeted in a private twitter and no one is around to retweet it, does it make a tweet?*

Invitation codes!

Find out yourself by using ‘doneright‘ as the invitation code at Shoutem.com or check out The Next Web or Mashables Shoutem versions.

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microblogging, microblogs, shout'em, twitter

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Create Your Own Twitter with Twingr

Written on November 13, 2008 – 7:54 pm
Zee, Internet Marketer, Design Connoisseur & Web App Devotee

Twingr is a brand new startup which essentially lets you create your own microblogging community. The site slots directly in with the continuing craze for microblogs and lifestreaming, and ways to make a viable business out of the two.

For those of you unfamiliar with microblogging, it’s simply a way to post short nuggets of thoughts, ideas, links to a website where they can be shared with others. The largest of these websites is undoubtedly Twitter, although there are many competitors along the lines of Plurk, Identi.ca, Rejaw and Techcrunch 50 winner Yammer.

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microblogging, microblogs, plurk, twitter

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