Birddi: like Twitter but Spanish. And heading for a lawsuit.
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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.
