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by adrr 2031 days ago
Performance was the feature. Friendster should have been social network of that era but they couldn’t scale and had to shutdown new user registration. Same thing happened to Twitter but they had no competitor in short form social networking.
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Pownce?

"Twitter on steroids" [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce

I remember when Kevin Rose of Digg made a lot of noise to launch this and then it very, very quickly died.