Of course the most sincere form of flattery is imitation and indeed, Twitter has a veritable smörgåsbord of rip-offs and imitators, primarily of the non-English variety. (Originally reported by Tim and Rabble). And now picked up by Wired and Techcrunch.
March of the Clones
By country (incl. supported language versions)
China
Israel
- Twoozer (English with rollout of Hebrew coming soon)
Germany
Hungary
France
Korea
Singapore
Netherlands
Poland
Spain
- Jisko (spanish) (Closed Beta) -- Open Source (AGPL)
- MiniTwitter (English) (pre-alfa released, alfa on development) --Note: Test on your server or in my site (here you can do groups)
- Pioppio.com (ES) A Visual Twitter. P.I/O means Photo Input Output -- uses Google AppEngine
Taiwan
- Buboo (Traditional Chinese)
Thailand
USA
Other project
- Floopo - Micro Blogging Script allows you to create your own website like twitter.
- Shopalize - What did you buy today?
- Laconica - open source microblogging tool
Other Lists
Comments (2)
StephanieBooth said
at 5:23 am on May 14, 2007
Time to start thinking about localisation/internationalisation seriously, folks!
Elizabeth Koh said
at 3:32 am on Mar 30, 2009
This site has a huge list of international clones http://www.thws.cn/articles/twitter-clones.html
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