Which came first Twitter or Fluther?

uhm, they’re not even close to the same thing, so there’s no copycating involved.

this is Q & A, and twitter is microblogging. two very different beasts.

Maybe there not, but similar; my question remains, who debuted first?

Fluther came out late 2006. I don’t have the release date of twitter (without googleing).

according to Wikipedia, twitter started in october 2006.

i dunno the exact month/date in 2006 of fluther.

The earliest page of twitter dates back to 2001.

The earliest page of fluther dates back to 2007

Dates are according to web.archive.org…

The first question on Fluther took place on October 16, 2006

Salt and Pepper was October 16, 2006

AC beat me.

Since Andrew (one of the founders of this site) has been a member since October 15th, 2006, I’m going to go with that.

I’m still insulted that anyone would think Twitter fit enough to touch the hem of Fluther’s garment. Copycat indeed. Twitter is at best a pale shadow of Fluther.

They are not alike at all.

Twitter does not have interactivity.
Twitter does not offer answers or information.

Marina, I don’t know if you are thinking of the same Twitter, because it does have a lot of interactivity. It is also a much more popular site.

Thanks for enlightening me Marina. Ignorance often draws unnecessary ire, which I was not intending.

I think it’d be a bigger insult to be compared to yahoo answers. At least it wasn’t that.

Comparing fluther to twitter isn’t an insult, it’s just like comparing apples to oranges. Campareing fluther to Y!A is an insult. If anything, comparing fluther to twitted is a compliment, because of the number of registered users and daily visitors that they have.

From all the defensive machinations I am reading I suspect it is a copy cat in idea. Because would Fluther have germinated without Twitter’s existence. And if not, so what!

I disagree with fluther being called a copy cat of Twitter. There may be some UI similarities (as with many Web 2.0 sites), but they both diverge from that point.

Twitter focuses on social networking, with freinds letting each other know what they are doing at any time. Fluther, on the other hand, is about asking and answering questions. Both I these sites allow people to interact with each other, but in entirely different ways.

@Garebo what does twitter have to do with “germinating” fluther? that makes no sense.

@Eambos Perhaps I should look again. The Twitter I knew is the one in which you post little 140 word “what I am doing right now” statements. Is it different?

@Marina i think he has in mind that people can subscribe to your twitter feed, you can direct reply them, etc. There is chat functionality (to a degree) in twitter with tinychat.

I guess the best thing to do is check it out myself. I have heard a lot about it and I stumbled across Fluther and this was the first thing that came to mind – it was a knock off attempt.
From the sound of it, it definitely isn’t. Fluther seems pretty cool, getting answers to questions rapidly; besides, Twitter seems so trendie and I hate trendie stuff.
Fluther may require some sorting through a debris of answers, but you seem to get what your after.

Twitter doesn’t answer questions.

Who cares. Wait that’s the answer to who came first, the man or the women regarding sex. My bad ;-)

Yes, and thank you, and we can now end answering this absurd question. It is now painfully apparent.