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Twitter vs Jaiku

Enough of the “Twitter sucks” or “Jaiku is stupid” arguments – you’re wrong, and I have the direct results to prove it. The presence platform (pratform?) is here to stay. Doesn’t matter if you’re on either network or not: Google loves ‘em.

Earlier today, I needed to find a post that I had written about OEMs sucking – so I went to Google to look for the OEMs suck post. The results blew me away – and you need to start taking both Twitter and Jaiku seriously if you haven’t already. Let’s look at the first organic result:

Jaiku | Chr15 P1r1LL0: Where / how do PC manufactuers (OEMs) suck … – 12:37pm
Chr15 P1r1LL0: Where / how do PC manufactuers (OEMs) suck? What are they doing wrong? Setting up the live conference call soon. …
danmac.jaiku.com/presence/1995934

WTF? The second result:

Jaiku | Latest from siouxmoux
Chr15 P1r1LL0: Looking for feedback (how OEMs suck) – tinyurl.com/2fbq5y … Chr15 P1r1LL0: Where / how do PC manufactuers (OEMs) suck? …
siouxmoux.jaiku.com/feed/rss

OMG! The third result:

Twitter / chrispirillo
Where / how do PC manufactuers (OEMs) suck? What are they doing wrong? Setting up the live conference call soon… about 1 hour ago from im …
twitter.com/chrispirillo

Understand, this all started with my original twitter about setting up to talk about how OEMs suck. The problem is: I failed to twitter the link to our live video feed in my initial twitter which was subsequently re-sneezed (jaiku’ed) by danmac. I’m grateful the content was reused, but Google totally dropped the ball on placing the link to my original” title=”http://twitter.com/chrispirillo/statuses/60853812\”>original” target=”_blank”>twitter.com/chrispirillo/statuses/60853812″>original twitter in the #1 position. Ouch. And you wonder why I twitter a link with damn near every tweet?

It’s just a matter of time before Twitter and Jaiku (and the like) are gamed to the point of general uselessness. The SEOs are coming, folks – be forewarned.

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the point that you should be on these platforms if you are interested in spreading your web presence and allowing potential customers the chance to find out about your program, offer or platform.  Just don’t try to game these platforms, please. Twitter vs. Jaiku – ChrisPirillo.com

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will come forth on using the tool. Douglas Karr did a post about Jaiku (another micro-blogging tool) where he poses the question, “Why aren’t marketers running to Jaiku“. He has some unique ideas that will get you thinking. Chris Pirillo had an interesting post about Twitter and Jaiku. He gives an example of a recent Google search where the top results were from Twitter and Jaiku discussion threads. If search results start playing into the equation, I bet the SEO/SEM community will find more uses very

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Google, as well as the passion of some users for their service of choice . Joi Ito: Twitter vs. Jaiku (Most sincere apologies to Mr. Ito for the mispronunciation of his name.) Rafe Needleman: How to Win in the Twitter vs. Jaiku Battle Chris Pirillo:Twitter vs. JaikuEric Rice: Eric’s Jaiku consciousness (Eric was incorrectly referred to as “Chris” in the audio. Apologies, friend.) Views Rich talks about his family’s recent trip to the movie theater. He is not at all amused with the cost of movie

I was waiting for the SEO thing to kick-in but hopefully the twitter and Jaiku crowd will make it more difficult for spam to get through.

I love Jaiku for the additional features but it’s mobile support for non-Nokia phones sucks. I mainly post to Twitter from my Treo 700p and I would LOVE to be able to do the same on Jaiku. I have been trying to get an activation code since I joined, about 2 months ago.
If they could get that worked out I might spend more time on Jaiku than Twitter. I doubt I would switch completely because I doubt all my contacts would.

dang gaming cool stuffersons!!! you can quote me on that.

i like pulling things in with jaiku, but the simplicity of twitter is nice.

I haven’t decided anything yet. I like Jaiku a lot but without everyone being there it won’t be the same. Also, I’m all about mobile and Jaiku isn’t there yet. Unless you have a nokia. And even then they are saying that it will be a java app that you will have to run. I love that I can get twitter updates right to my phone via SMS or IM. For now I will continue to use both and see what happens.

What are your pros and cons for both Chris?

Why choose – http://twitku.com/ lets you post to both simultaneously! You can also read both streams in the frames at the bottom of the browser page.

I can even post from mobile IE but the reader screens don’t work. :(

[...] There are even times when Twitter or Jaiku status updates have been topping search engine results, like this one example by Chris Pirillo, in which Jaiku and Twitter updates that linked to a blog posting of his ranked even higher than his original blog posting itself. The same thing happened in another experiment involving Twitter and a blog post. [...]

Different 2.0 nets have different audiences and different uses. If you can manage to become a time management ninja like Merlin Mann, you can have your 2.0 cake and eat it too and have time on the side to conquer your overflowing inbox. Hiii-yaaaa!

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