Twitter + FriendFeed vs. Jaiku

A thread sprang up overnight -- on FriendFeed, so it's a little biased. The highlights:

• Jaiku is moving to Google App Engine
• People are using these conversations to hawk their own Twitter clones
• Folks are starting to speculate that Microsoft will buy Twitter just for the community. I wonder what they would rename it? "Microsoft Text Conversations"?
  

People's complaints about Jaiku:

• They hate the interface.
• It's too complicated.
  
• It's slow.
• Community evangelism has been lackluster, so the people just aren't there.
• 'according to rumour, apart from its port to Google AppEngine, it's now maintained as a "20% time" project.'

Many speculate that Jaiku fits into Google's Android strategy and we'll see a location-aware Android client.

Why isn't Jaiku discussed much as a serious Twitter competitor? I just took another look and I hate the UI. Plus it's ssslllooowwww. - FriendFeed

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