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Re:Ask YC: Why do you think Pownce failed? by gaius on Monday December 01, 2008 @04:19PM (#382128)
One reason is that they faffed around with their API, they spent forever trying to define the perfect XML and never produced anything I could build on. I like Pownce a lot (even paid for an account for a year) but if I couldn't a) build apps on it (not public facing) and b) find any of my friends on it it wasn't much use to me.
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Re:Ask YC: Why do you think Pownce failed? by babyshake on Monday December 01, 2008 @05:21PM (#382210)
I agree. My friends didn't use it, nuff said.

In fact, this is the same reason I persist in not using Twitter. Just because my friends tend to start and end with Facebook.

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