Twitter vs Jott: One World vs One Country. Aanvangsleerfase overslaan

I have heard a couple of nice things about Jott and would like to try the service. Sadly I can’t because I am in the UK, and Jott only works across US cell phone networks. Compare and contrast with Twitter, which supports Europe, using the UK as a bridge. My Twitter network now has a nicely global flavour. Yesterday Suw Charman needed a translation of a Dutch phrase… and Werner Ramaekers provided it. She wasn’t subscribed to him, but he was to me, so I provided a pivot point. Needless to say after Suw discovered that “aanvangsleerfase overslaan” meant “skipping the initial learning phase” she subscribed directly to Werner.

Bursty people tend to aanvangsleerfase overslaan, but interestingly enough they’re probably less likely to need to RTFM because they immerse themselves in the services they use.

Perhaps I am being unfair to Jott, given it relies on voice transcription, whereas Twitter is “just” text. But explosive service growth is always going to be more likely if you skip the initial learning phase and go global out of the gates. America is not exactly a backwater yet, but its only a portion of the addressable market. My furthest Twitterer is aqualung. He is why RedMonk has an Aussie client. To get a sense for out of the box globalisation check out the hypnotic “view of God” Twittervision. Apparently the BBC twitters in viatnamese. Who knew?