Twitter and Pownce

Platforms like Twitter and Pownce enable people share their thoughts in a literally public manner--you post a thought or a description of whatever you're doing, you'll never know who's going to jump in this conversation and what responses people will pop up with, as long as you post "publicly". Not only online, but also in real life in that microblogging system would send posts and direct messages to cellphones if the owner has connected his/her phone with the system. However similar in basic ideas behind, they do have differences which let each one of them stand out and survive in market competition.

Differences between Twitter and Pownce

• In Twitter, I can follow anyone that I'm interested in, then his/her updates will appear on my main page. I can send message to that person and I have choice of sending it publicly as default or privately as a @message. In Pownce, I am not allowed to send message to a person only if I add him/her in my friend list and he/her accept the application.
• In Twitter, I can only post as much as 140 characters; but Pownce allows me to post as much as I want.
• Twitter only offers 5 choice of importing friends from other network excluded within your email account contacts. However, Pownce allows importing friends from 4 networks and 4 email accounts, which totally add up to 8 choices.
• Twitter allows users to change the default color of preset themes. Moreover, one can upload any pictures to set up as background. General users of Pownce only have 12 choice of background pictures and cannot change the color. It requires money, $20 a year to be a pro-member to enable one to adjust his/her theme.
• Twitter only support posts in words; however, one can upload audio and visual files at Pownce within 100 MB max, and 250MB for pro-members.
• For personal profile, Twitter only offers one MORE-Info URL you can add into; with Pownce, one can link his/her other profiles including social networks and instant messengers as well as websites.