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Category: Technology Author : Duncan Riley Posted: April 30, 2009
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Twitter clone Rejaw closing


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Twitter clone Rejaw is closing May 15.

Launched in August 2008, the service was one of the first to offer push updates, delivering chat like live discussions to microblogging. Rejaw also offered an API, although few applications were built on it.

The official announcement doesn’t detail the reasons behind the closure, but public statistics would suggest it came down to numbers, or specifically in Rejaw’s case, a lack there of. Rejaw was one of a wave of Twitter like microblogging services launched between 2006 and 2008, a time where Twitter was growing, but hadn’t yet become the juggernaut it is today. Rejaw is likely the first of many similar services that won’t make 2010.

(via TheNextWeb)










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One Archived Response to “ Twitter clone Rejaw closing ”

  1. Michael Kresse
    Apr 30, 2009

    Shame…I never heard of Rejaw until now…it seems like everything on the web these days has been done multiple times over again. Rejaw is just another example of a site that has slightly changed a proven concept (Twitter) and added a few options in hopes of success. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to cut it anymore.

    Great article.