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All of them. He flirted with them all. Jaiku, Identi.ca, App.net, etc. He was always trying to find an alternative. I've been listening on and off to him since my first iPod, so over 10 years. As each new one came out he jumped on it. He was the same with Android/iOS and Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Was it Pownce?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce

I think it was Pownce, as Kevin Rose co-founded it and he was associated with Tech TV all the way back to 2002 (I think). Blast from the past...

https://identi.ca/

He really pushed identi.ca, there was a nice community there back in the day. It became a bit of a refuge from the noise on twitter. I had my identi.ca account in my sig file up until a couple of years ago. But I have largely lost interest in any of the social media platforms though I use twitter from time to time.

I think he tried a few, but the one that I remember him saying that he liked the most was Plurk.

This page shows the UI, at the time, pretty well: https://readwrite.com/2008/06/04/plurk_unique_or_just_anothe...

Jaiku. It was bought by Google and disappeared because of Google+

Jaiku or Pownce?