Twitter not for you? Then use pictures instead with DailyBooth
They (whoever they are) tell us that a picture can speak louder than words. And that’s often true, with an image able to capture a moment in time that would require a thousand words to describe fully. So if the 140-character tweets of Twitter are too much for you to take in (or otherwise not enough space to express yourself) you should check out DailyBooth. It’s like Twitter with pictures.
Twitter is such a simple idea that when I first heard about it I wondered why I hadn’t thought of it first. But some people still cannot quite grasp the idea behind it, what they’re meant to do, and above all the appeal of the whole thing.
That hasn’t, however, stopped hundreds of clone sites or associated apps from being developed. There are lots that use Twitter but build on the idea, adding an extra layer of usability. Then there are the ones that take the basic idea and create something slightly different from it. One such site is 12seconds.tv, which adds ultra-short video to the equation. And then there is DailyBooth.
DailyBooth, as profiled on TechCrunch, is a Twitter clone which uses photos as its main draw. At its heart it is still a multi-user messaging service, but the main form of communication on DailyBooth is photos. The images can be of anything (legal of course) but most people are so far sticking to photo booth-style images of themselves. Hence the name of the site.
Alongside the picture you can add a message explaining what’s going on or giving a rundown of your day, exactly as you would on Twitter. You can also comment on other people’s pictures or message them if their daily upload really piques your interest.
So, a Twitter which utilizes pictures rather than words. Some will dismiss DailyBooth as a Twitter clone trying to hang on to the coattails of that site, and that’s true to some extent. But by changing things ever so slightly, DailyBooth is building a different audience and fast, with 3 million unique visitors to the site every month since its launch in January. Maybe Twitter’s time on the sun is up.
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February 15th, 2010
I don’t believe that the part about Dailybooth having a different audience or trying to compete is entirely correct. Many people use both Twitter AND Dailybooth. With Dailybooth’s feature to update your Twitter, they kind of go hand in hand. Tweets can be short and sweet, but when something photogenic happens a long with your daily tweets, you can just pull out your handy phone, snap a shot, add it to dailybooth, AND tweet about it.
March 24th, 2010
I agree with Robert in that both Dailybooth and Twitter should both be utilized. Twitter is too large of a social networking site for businesses to ignore, and many of them already have relationships built with people through Twitter. At the same time Dailybooth is newer and smaller, at the very least companies should be using this resource in case it does become the new twitter.
Having the picture instantly on the news feed is more powerful than just a link to one.