The founder of photo hosting TwitPic launched a Twitter clone

The founder of photo hosting TwitPic Noah Everett announced the launch of his startup Heello , announced exactly a year ago. Everett himself calls the new service a competitor to Twitter, but in fact it's just his clone.

It is noteworthy that the launch of Heello coincided with the launch of the official internal photo hosting site for all Twitter users. After that, Twitter users lost the need to use other auxiliary photo hosting sites, the most popular of which was TwitPic. Everett said it was a complete coincidence, but he was glad for him.

Heello looks and works like Twitter in almost every way. Instead of writing tweets, users need to send pings. Instead of retweeting, they have to “echo” other messages. Instead of following, users “listen” to their friends. The only difference is that the message flow is updated in real time, which, however, is very annoying if you, for example, want to click on a link in your friend's message.
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In order to make an impression about the service, you can take a look at live messages . In Heello there is integration with Twitter and Facebook with the possibility of broadcasting their “pings” in them.

According to Everett, the service will soon include video support, check-ins, SMS integration, mobile applications, and a Twitter list feature called Channels. However, Heello does not look like a competitor to Twitter at all and is unlikely to become one, even with future functions.

As for TwitPic, Everett assures that in the near future the service will not disappear into obscurity and he has a huge database of loyal users.

via VentureBeat , Mashable