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Review: Tangling With Twitter -- 8 Alternative Services: Page 2 of 5


Twitter
Alternatives


•  Introduction

•  3jam

•  Dodgeball

•  Jaiku


•  Joopz

•  Jyngle

•  Loopnote

•  Pinger

•  Swarm


•  Image Gallery

For something more phone-centric, there's 3jam. This service does one thing, and does it well, which is sure to make it a darling of the slacker set -- 3jam makes it easy to use text messaging for a group conversation.

3jam

3jam: The message-creation screen for 3jam reflects its stick-to-the-basics one-to-many SMS messaging.

Dodgeball is actually older than Twitter -- it was a very early Web 2.0 project that was bought by Google in 2005 (and more or less vanished from sight soon thereafter). The two Dodgeball founders quit Google in a public huff recently, but the service goes on -- in 22 cities in the United States, anyway.

Dodgeball