When you see an article with the title “Yonkly: The Next Twitter Killer”, you’ve got little choice but to check it out.
Well, let me tell you Yonkly is no Twitter killer. Aside from a few administrative bells and whistles such as being able to have a custom domain and installing ads, Yonkly has little that make it a viable alternative to Twitter.
What Yonkly has in spade is chutzpah and the belief it can create a subscription-based business model. The problem is it’s difficult to understand what you’re paying to use other than storage space, and the ability to have full control of ads and removing Yonkly’s logo.
Here’s Yonkly’ subscription model:
Twitter could glean a few ideas from Yonkly but it has nothing to worry about.
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I am glad you clarified that because we are NOT and do NOT want to be a twitter killer. The same way Ning is not a facebook killer.
This is a platform to enable people to create there own network private or public and have full control over it from having a custom domain, custom look, custom message size and prompt. All that on top of the extra features that twitter does not have.
We already have an amazing number of networks created from topics as varied as lawyers, sharepoint, photography, religion and some that are geo-centric e.g a bulgarian network, an egyptian network, a chinese network and so on.
Also REMEMBER, Yonkly is FREE for users. Only the network owner will pay.
Some good examples are http://www.isweat.comwith 2500+ members and photographersjournal.com which is only 2 days old and growing fast.
Thanks for the review though and for taking a look at Yonkly.
Thanks for checking us out
Yonkly is actually free for the end users; however, like meetup, if you want to host a specific niche, or group, we put a price on it–mainly because we'd rather have 1 microblog on tech with 100 users than the antithesis
Will people be turned off because of this? Sure. However, we're sticking to our convictions that it's better for microblogging as a whole.
Also, I think your wording of "killing twitter" misses the point completely. Furthermore, one must define the word kill.
Does kill mean making more money than Twitter? If so, we've already killed them.
Does kill mean attracting a larger number of users? If so, Twitter is still alive and kickin'!
- Scott from Yonkly
No free version?! $10/month for basic?! $100/month for premium?! Are they on crack? How can you get any users without offering a free version.
Incidentally, they changed the name of one of their features. They now have a "Free Users" row. So I can get 2000 "Free" users for only $40/month – what a deal!
I think it's a pretty innovative site actually.