Why No Twitter Clone in Vietnam?

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Friday, September 12. 2008

Vietnamese web startups like to clone social networking services (SNS) like Facebook, Myspace. It seems to be easy, cool and trendy. One of the most successful Web 2.0 services winning hearts and minds of bloggers worldwide, Twitter is not popular in Vietnam. Joining social networks as anonymous user is still common in Vietnam. Showing to others what are you doing means you have to show some true identity. To my guestimate there are about 3k - 5k of Twitter users in Vietnam. More than one year ago, Japanese Ascent Network launched its Twitter clone Haru dubbed Tictac (meaning every second in Vietnamese, truly good brand name). A micro blogging service with no widget feature, Tictac is in the Deadpool now. Twitter clones are not in good position in China also. Chinese Internet users can use Tencent's QQ IM for their communication. To leverage its user base, Tencent launched a Twitter clone TaoTao, members can update from the Web and QQ only. Number of TaoTao users is far above other clones.

Can Yahoo leverage its user base of Yahoo IM and Yahoo 360 in Vietnam to launch a micro blogging service since Tumblr is getting adoption fast among bloggers in Vietnam?

Posted by Jason at 14:21 | Comments (13) | Trackbacks (0)

Defined tags for this entry: Deadpool, micro, TaoTao, Tictac, Tumblr, Twitter

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Hi Jason, A quick look at these two points may help justifying your point: 1. Young users' tendency to show ego through page view 2. The amount of time Vietnamese young users spend on online activities Regards, Tai

#1 TaiTran (Homepage) on 2008-09-15 17:53 (Reply)

3k-5k Twitter users? I don't think they are that much.

#2 Chip (Homepage) on 2008-09-15 23:28 (Reply)

Hope the number should be

including expats in Vietnam

#2.1 Jason (Homepage) on 2008-09-16 05:38 (Reply)

@Chip: that includes expats as well. The same mechanism gave me the estimation of around 300,000 Vietnam-related Facebook users. Don't be surprised by this

#2.2 TaiTran (Homepage) on 2008-09-16 06:16 (Reply)

Immediate response: Twitter clone for Vietnamese http://qblog.vn Just FYI, I haven't tested it yet. Tai

#3 TaiTran (Homepage) on 2008-09-16 06:02 (Reply)

Look like qblog.vn does not copy twitter by this http://www.poukker.com/terms_and_conditions

#3.1 Minh Hieu (Homepage) on 2008-09-16 19:31 (Reply)

When we talk about cloning, we don't only (or actually) discuss Technology. We refer to the Concept.

#3.1.1 TaiTran (Homepage) on 2008-09-26 13:25 (Reply)

Working on it

Give me another week before we can test it.

#4 SaigonNezumi (Kevin) (Homepage) on 2008-09-26 16:27 (Reply)

I will do it. But it have to be better than Twitter. I done www.upcoming.vn before. The main features of this website is the same to upcoming.org . Currently we are updating new features on it. Please hold one for Twitter Vietnam. Cheers, http://www.tuvinh.com

#5 Vietnam Software (Homepage) on 2008-09-28 12:12 (Reply)

I have a blog post answering your question

Here's the URL: http://huyenchip.com/twitter-new-communication-standard/

#6 Chip (Homepage) on 2008-09-30 21:11 (Reply)

In fact, Rick told me about the Hola.vn, but I don't like its platform (Microsoft) while Twitter on Rails. @chip: why not use trackback

#7 Jason (Homepage) on 2008-10-01 19:18 (Reply)

Hi Jason, This is Tien, hola is my pet project. Why dont you like the .NET platform?

#7.1 Tien Nguyen on 2008-10-10 12:16 (Reply)

I prefer open source platforms

#7.1.1 Jason (Homepage) on 2008-10-11 09:43 (Reply)

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