Com o sucesso do Twitter já era de se esperar o surgimento de inúmeras outras plataformas e soluções similares. Tais ofertas, incluem funcionalidades variadas, adicionais ao Twitter. Confira a seguir 12 opções selecionadas:

vale lembrar a frase antológica de Lee Trevino, um dos golfistas de maior sucesso no mundo. Após uma tacada longa e precisa, uma voz feminina gritou da arquibancada: “Que sorte!”. E Trevino respondeu em voz baixa, mas perto dos microfones: “É minha senhora…quanto mais eu treino, mais sorte eu tenho.”

A Micro-Ethnographic of Twitter Usage
by Marcos Figueira

About fifty years ago, Andy Warhol anticipated that everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes. The willingness for fame is intrinsically related to vanity itself.

In the realm of the digital age, the barriers today for vanity (self) publishing, thanks to the advance of digital technologies, notably the internet, are incredibly low. Blogs, personal web pages and the social networking spaces (MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, Twitter etcetera), could be viewed as an enormous vanity arena, overflowing with amateur publishers, self-appointed authors and the most diverse self-centered personalities.

Actually there are many other website that offer user the ability to upload their videos. Some offer even a better compression rate and quality than YouTube itself (like Vimeo). Check out some of the options:

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.