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I probably should have toned that down a bit, yeah. What I meant was that when kickstarted, the concept will pretty easily attract new visitors, because it's a weird experience; and there's hardly a barrier to engage with the site (just click a button and off you go).

The problem is in the kickstarting: no people chatting, means no eavesdropping and barely anything of interest there when you visit.

Ok, I might have used the term viral a little to easily.

With regard to the inviting: an attempt to this end is made in enabling users to tweet their conversations. This would allow their followers to eavesdrop on their particular conversation in realtime. Why would you want a lot of eavesdroppers? Hmm, good question ;)

So something else for people to invite others..

Thanks for your reply, I'm going to think about how (and whether) to prevent the whole ASL-thing on the site.

Excellent read btw, the link you pointed out to me!

I don't think the concept needs to be more viral. And I wouldn't know what to make a video about in order to promote Tjetter; are you suggesting something along the lines of a webcast of recorded conversations?

People are looking for a way to kill some time. I think this is highlighted by allowing visitors to share conversation-links with others..

Still, the problem remains the fact that it's difficult to get an initial userbase that makes sure there's always something interesting to read about on there :)

Are you the one complaining about the 'godawful red'? :)

Anyway, suggestions on how to generate some buzz around this concept?

Thanks for informing me about how americans (you are, right?) interpret the name.

We'll see whether this will hinder growth in any way. I hope not ofcourse :)

Ours is "Tjetter" (http://www.tjetter.com), which is "Chatter" spelled phonetically in Dutch.

We really wondered whether this would be a good idea, because I'm guessing it's practically impossible to pronounce 'tjetter' in English (is it not?).

Interesting article. Even more interesting are the reponses with regard to your 'black hat' tactics of generating the buzz. There's no such thing as 'bad publicity', right?

I myself have been wondering how to generate some buzz around my own fun side-project: http://www.tjetter.com - a site that allows you to chat with random strangers, as well as read (and replay) all conversations that take place at that very moment... Not sure whether applying your tactics should be the way to proceed. Suggestions?