Twitter and Pownce

There are many ways to update your status, and quickly share stuff with your friends. There is Twitter and Pownce. These two apps are somewhat common. Mainly, you can share stuff with your friends.

Twitter is the simpler of the two. You have an account, you can follow people and people can follow you. You post a message with a max length of 140 characters, and these gets sent to your feed, and who ever is following you sees these updates. You have a main stream page(mine can be found here) which people can check out what you have posted to see if your interesting enough to follow. When people follow you, they can have your updates either be emailed to you, text to your phone, or none. So this is a fun way to tell your friends what your upto. You can also send a text to Twitter from your phone, updating your status on the go.

Pownce is everything Twitter is, but a bit more feature rich. You can send messages, but you can also send files up to 50mb(100mb if you pay), embed music or videos, send links, as well as have Events. So lets say you setup a group of your gaming friends. You can setup an event for playing Call of Duty, and only tell your gaming friends to come play with you. These let you share stuff with your friends, better than Twitter does.

I currently have an account for both Twitter and Pownce...but not many people update their Pownce. More people update their Twitter. So I'm more active in the Twitter scene because that is where the action is. Another downside to Pownce is they don't have the ability to update it through texting. That is probably a major reason for Twitter being more popular. So I would like to see texting added to Pownce, and see more activity on Pownce. Maby a Twitter Pownce merger?