Attack of the Twitter Clones: A look at their traffic, funding source and revenue models.

[makimaki]

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/11/1107_twitter_clone/index.htm?technology%20slideshows

[dshah]

Traffic for many of these sites is much lower than I would have expected.

Looks like HN might get more traffic than several of them.

[frankus]

I was thinking about building a service on top of BrightKite, but at 1/20th the number of visitors vs. Twitter I'm not sure.

Are there any other location-based social networks with a published API? Loopt seems to see itself more as a program and less as a platform.

[ujeezy]

They missed 3jam, which is for group-texting rather than microblogging, but seems to deserve a place in that list

[tialys]

Interesting... the ones that charge seem to be doing the worst -- even if they add value with the cost.

[Shamiq → tialys]

I guess they aren't adding enough.

Or perhaps the lack of scarcity in the market is causing them to do worse.