I’ve decided to take a short Brightkite break. I have a laundry lost of things that I would love to see Brightkite do (search my site for Brightkite) and it has been a while since they’ve done any updates. Presumably because they’ve been in the middle of a business deal (which is understandable).
I have another reason though. I’m getting tired of typing everything into Brightkite on my iPhone only to open TwitterFon to check Twitter. I’ve been doing it for a long time now.
So, a break. I’ll be using Twitter exclusively (and here in my blog).
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Noooo! I can’t be the only one at the party! What are you going to use for photos instead? Flickr? Twitpic?
I use Flickr right now but I’m leaning towards going back to my own site. We’ll see what I come up with!
I have been using Twitter more than Brightkite these days. I still like the check-in feature and will continue to use that, but I agree with you on posting to BK and then checking Twitter. It is a pain.
Exactly. After my break, I will report on what I intend to do, why, etc. But for now I’m simply monitoring my own behaviors.
I’m considering dropping Brightkite as well, at least while I’m in Germany. It’s too expensive for me to update my location from my German cell phone, so the location based feature is pretty useless. I’ve been trying out a lot of Twitter apps recently, and it really bugs me to not be able to post right from there to Brightkite, especially since I don’t ever really check Brightkite any more.
The ONLY reason I like Brightkite is to keep track of the places I’ve been and the things I said, or photos I shared, from those locations. If Twitter had a geo-layer I’d be much less likely to use Brightkite.
Again, I have a lot to say on this subject once I have been off of Brightkite for a while and have a good idea of why I miss it.
I am a new brightkite user on iPhone…and after using it…i wonder why I am? I think if this program was more integrated say like a Pingle or Pixelpipe (if that would have worked for me) it would be great. I would love a tweetdeck or seesmic app for iphone that does all of this. Expanded twitteriffic?
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