Microblogging portal, Chittr (supposed to be India’s twitter) joins the shortcircuit pool (the site navigates to comics.com now)
This is what I wrote in my earlier review:
chittr needs to clearly define their offering/positioning and stick to it for another few months (and then move on to other areas). Also, they need not copy the twitter lingo…
Unless the site is hacked (by comics.com guys? very unlikely!), I am quite surprised by such behavior – I mean, why redirect? Can’t they simply say they have shutdown and close the site?
Even though these portals (please notice: I am not calling these startups) are a result of “I-can-do-it-too” mentality, it’s really important for founders to declare their shutdown status (and then shutdown).
The bigger question is how will you trust them with your data, say if they launch another portal tomorrow ?
I won’t.
[Thanks Vishal for the tip]
I agree. Scalability and a good, what I call , “follow-through” is very important. Chittr had a fairly good chance of becoming as popular as Twitter. But its incidents like these where the clones fall short.
thanks ashish for this info.
ps: how about simply calling it the deadpool instead of “short circuit” pool?
“short circuit pool” sounds too connived and i couldnt understand what it meant from the title until i read most of the article.
keep up the good work.
I agree that startups should say when they are done with. On another note, if you want something close to twitter and Indian do visit http://kwippy.com.
I do believe that twitter doesnt represent micro-blogging, and Kwippy attempts to be a truer(if there is such a word) platform for people to micro-blog(and not conversations like twitter).
If you want to get into kwippy fire me a mail at dipankar[at]kwippy.com.
Its been so since around two months. The last time i checked when i read a review of chittr on pluggd thru google search. I was surprised when i checked the url and got redirected to a comics site. And seems like people have noticed it so late. So does that make a point? Have a good number of people been using this service or did they shutdown becoz of that?
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I wanted to post a review request for http://www.emote.in.
Emote is a concept of sharing emotions, built over microblogging; with a beautiful timeline.
emote is a microblogging service; which is a platform to -
1. broadcasting and sharing your emotions with your family, friends and to the entire world.
2. Make yourself heard, comment on news, stories and current affair.
3. Share your experiences, memories and events with your friends and family.
4. Connect with different people with similar emotional attributes as yours.
(ex: if atrocities on animals make you sad, connect with others who share the same feeling)
5. Jot-down your experiences. You usually have so many things to say – a constant stream of thoughts, comments and observations running through your head continuously.
6. A wonderful TIMELINE that arranges your messages in a chronological order date by date.
(A prominent micro-blog reviewer thinks so!)
http://emote.in/notice/2595