• Popjam takes Twitter – applies LOLs

    Friday, February 20th, 2009

    Mike Butcher is the European Editor for TechCrunch. A former grunge rock drummer, he became a long time journalist, and has since written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. Mike is also a co-founder and shareholder of TechHub, a co-working space/service/community with several locations... → Learn More

    Popjam is a new ‘social humour’ site which has launched using the Twitter ‘friend/follow’ model of social networking. In fact – but for the images of LOLcats and videos – it is so similar to Twitter in appearance and operation that it could be mistaken for a pure Twitter clone. But what we have here is a kind of Twitter-meets-Digg-meets-jokes. Unlike niche humor sites like College Humour oreBaumsworld, Popjam is aiming to be more of a ‘platform’ for humour, if that’s conceivable. PopJam users can post images, videos and links in their feed, as well as ‘LOL’ posts so that that users go onto a leader-board. As for the Twitter aspect, the site doesn’t yet integrate with Twitter, though that’s ‘in the plan’. The UK-based site is Angel funded.

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