Benchmark Test: TweetByMail.com vs. TweetBySnailMail.com
January 23, 2009
The Twitter application TweetBySnailMail.com offers a service to submit your status updates to Twitter on your behalf via the United States Postal Service. That website was launched mere days after the announcement of TweetByMail.com, a similar service, except that it uses email rather than standard postal mail. Clearly this was an aggressive counter-measure by my competitors to undermine the growing popularity of TweetByMail in offering a copy-cat solution.
However, the two services chose very different technological architecture to build thier services upon.
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the beauty of TweetBySnailMail is that it embraces the postal service. TweetByMail is a useful tool, but TweetBySnailMail is a fun toy. it may not be the most “efficient”. however it’s less “mechanical”. it allows a person’s own hand-writing to go up. it’s somewhat like PostSecret.com — another wonderful creation.
it’s sad that this culture is so obsessed with everything occurring right NOW. we’ve lost appreciation for time, patience, and beauty. and though I love TweetByMail, it cannot offer those very things that TweetBySnailMail simply has.