Will Pownce’s New API Finally Battle Twitter?

As many of us Twitter users are aware, it can be a fickle experience at best.  Our alternative has become Pownce in those bleak times of Twitter outages.  Many have often wondered why Pownce has not given Twitter a little better run for its $$.  I mean Pownce has some great features that Twitter does not, like the ability to post events, notes, links, and share files.  The common argument that had Twitter always winning out was its API that developers have used to their advantage to give users so many choices.

Well that may change now.  On Thursday, Pownce announced the release of API 2.0, a much more complete and robust API opening the door for developers to code away to utilize the Pownce platform.  Here is the announcement from the Pownce blog.  To me this may be a turning of the tide.  If Pownce can build a critical mass of developers coding cool things like we see on the Twitter platform and give us a more robust and stable platform … the twitter phenomena may be in trouble.  We are a fickle bunch and if the currents carry us in a new direction to the shores of Pownceland, we may have a huge shift.

On an ending note, I wanted to pass along one of the first cool new tools for Pownce based on the new API.  It is a Pownce It bookmarklet.  Simply drag the bookmarklet to your browser toolbar and click it to share cool links with your friends via Pownce.