Heello is Twitter for Pretending

Hmm, why aren't they joining forces with identi.ca and pushing an already existing service (with a small but existing user base)? There would have been so much room for improvement, instead, they create YATC (yet another twitter clone) from scratch, without any backup from an existing community …

I really don't think that they can compete with twitter this way. Let's see how this will evolve.

I'm willing to bet Heello is TwitPic's backup plan. What I mean by that is, when you base your entire product on another platform, and that platform ceases to exist (or in this case, doesn't want to play nice with you anymore) you can do one of two things:

1. Shutdown

2. Rebuild the other service yourself and integrate your tool

If you invested real money into a product, which would you choose? Especially when the "other service" is basically a badly scaled, maxlen'd, asynchronous messaging service.

guess I'm really wondering why this exists -- seems like maybe the idea originated back in early twitter days and devs just decided to see it through now all of a sudden?