Maybe Twitter wasn’t enough
Plurk is a new service which at its basic level does the same thing that Twitter does: it allows you to chronicle your life 140 characters at a time. This is where the similarities end, however.
The Japanese Haiku has a challenger
CopyBlogger issued a challenge to the world. Write a piece of literature which is exactly 140 character, 
not more not less. Why 140? Because this was a Twitter Writing contest. And a lot of people took the challenge. Winners got iPods and a whole lot more. The winning entries are below:
First Place:
“Time travel works!” the note read. “However you can only travel to the past and one-way.” I recognized my own handwriting and felt a chill.
Second Place:
A challenger to Twitter?
Emad Ibrahim, an accomplished developer, has put together a Twitter clone. Now he has done this because he wanted to learn the latest version of Asp.net MVC framework.
Asp.net MVC framework rocks. I wanted to play with it more and decided why not build an open source twitter.
So he did, and came up with Yonkly: built entirely on Asp.Net and is going to be entirely open source. It has all the features that Yonkly has and then some more. It has built-in a lot of features that Twitter didn’t have to begin with and depended on third party software to create.
Here’s a quick peek at some of the features:
Update your Windows Live Messenger status from anywhere
Twitter is a phenomena; a phenomena which not a lot of people understand. I am only beginning to get hooked on to it. However, lately more and more tools, utilities, and services keep cropping up around Twitter. So what has that got to do with Live Messenger status? Meet Twessenger.