I found out about Twitter on a friend’s blog a couple of months ago. Today I was looking for an alternative and I bumped on lots of posts debating Twitter, its value and its alternatives. So I am posting some links to them along with my personal opinion on the matter.

Here are the links:

• Goodbye Twitter by Leo Laporte
• Twitter vs. Jaiku Battle by Rafe Needleman
• RIP Twitter by Mat Balez (with lots of nice comments)
• Jaiku.com (a Twitter alternative)

My personal opinion is this: Twitter is just another effort to something new. I can’t really go on predictions, because things change on the web and they do change fast. So I am in, but wait and see…

I was looking for an alternative to Twitter today, because, though I do not use it that much, 9 out of 10 times I have tried to use Twitter, some, if not all of its features, are down for maintenance… IM does not really work most of the times. I am using AIM because neither Windows Live Messenger is supported, nor can I setup my own-domain-GTalk (as I need to add DNS SRV records which my DNS provider does not support). Even the web interface which should be mostly available was down again today. Posting by SMS is a nice alternative but still silly to use while I am sitting in front of my computer. So, am I going to switch to Jaiku? Well… I created a Jaiku account today but I am not sure yet… First I ‘ll try it, then I will decide… But in any case, posting through IM is preferred method of sending updates, so Jaiku, won’t win me over before they support IM unless Twitter looses me first…

If you do not know what Twitter is then look it up here.