Birddi: like Twitter but Spanish. And heading for a lawsuit.
Take a look at this site. Remind you of anything? Yep, us too.
Birddi is the work of a 19-year-old Argentinian coder, who decided that not many Spanish speakers were using Twitter, so decided to create his own version. Except he’s gone a bit too far and copied the exact homepage, design and logo from Twitter.
“Birddi is simple – people are impatient and want to connect simply and quickly with friends,” says creator Martin De Lío. We suspect that Twitter’s lawyers will be connecting simply and quickly with him in the coming days to suggest a different look and feel. Although as Aliado Digital points out, Russian social network Vkontakte did a similar thing to Facebook, and has done pretty well out of it.
October 6th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
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October 13th, 2009 at 12:25 am
If I was Twitter I certainly wouldn’t sue them. This guy might be able to help introduce microblogging to a market that Twitter doesn’t have a strong presence, and after that it should be much easier for twitter to grow it’s Spanish/Argentinian userbase. Afterall, it’s always bound to be a better service than this one.
When something like this comes along that can grow the size of the pie (in this case % of the population that microblog) then everyone benefits!