Pownce down, who's next......

This chart makes Pownce's decay painfully clear:



There is an article today from HealYourChurch (?) noting that the demise was predicted:

let’s rewind about a year and a half ago to Tamar Weinberg’s comparison entitled ‘Twitter vs. Pownce: Who Pwns?‘ Dutifully she does what many of us do while shopping for software, cars, and food processors - she compares and scores the features of one product against another to a conclusion that reads:

Pownce 5, Twitter 3. Pownce wins!

There’s only one problem with that approach, while features may sell a product, it is ultimately functionality that sustains a product; software or otherwise.

Which is why I think Scoble succinctly hits the nail on the head while unwittingly predicting Pownce’s demise in his Twitter vs. Pownce post also from early July 2007:

“But, anyway, I still like Twitter the best. Why? No complications. It does only one thing. I find that on my cell phone I go back to Twitter before I go back to any of the others. It’s lightweight.”

Put another way, when it comes to microblogging, Twitter has it all over Pownce because it makes it easy to do the one thing we all want from microblogging - making the mundane instances of our lives meaningful, while learning new things about our friends without coming off like a stalker.

Hm...I think its even more Mundane than Meaningfulness - I'm with Scoble - its just simple to use and does what it says.

The other thing the graph shows is the near equal rise of Plurk & Friendfeed. One (Friendfeed) seems to get a lot of A List love, the other - is keeping up with it regardless. Which of course begs the question of whether A list bloglove works.....