Apr 29

Bebo Copies Twitter, Who Copied Dodgeball

posted in OpEd on 04/29/07 at 07:04 PM

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Twitter is being assimilated into other social networks extremely quickly - not only did Facebook just upgrade its status updates to do much the same thing, but now Bebo has launched a feature that also emulates Twitter’s functionality. The name of the feature is “What are You Doing?�, which Twitter users will recognize as the Twitter slogan. Subtle. via Bebo Clones Twitter, Blatantly

I like the addition of the feature. It’s not novel by any means, Twitter copied the idea from Dodgeball. It may be a passing fad, but small is the new big at the moment. The copy of the input box, however, is a little bit too much of a copy. I like it, it looks great, of course. I wonder how many others will be adding this type thing into their own social sites. I probably will!

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