Something Better Than Twitter – TipDrop

July 17, 2009

If you used to follow someone on Twitter but have stopped doing that because you are tired of reading about what they had for breakfast, or tweeting that they’re giving their dog a bath, or other ridiculous stuff, you will love this one… it is a new social-knowledge site called TipDrop.

Basically TipDrop is similar to Twitter in many ways but it is much better than it. Here is a list of a few TipDrop features…

• Focus – unlike Twitter which lacks focus, TipDrop allows you to give tips on a certain subject which is one of your tip sheets.
• Interactive – other people going to your tip sheet can add their tips or vote for or against your tips.
• Less chance of spam – since other TipDrop users can either vote for or against your tips, tips getting lower votes drop their ranks – when a tip falls below a credibility score of 1, it disappears off the list.
• More characters allowed – unlike Twitter, you can enter a tip for up to 255 characters long.
• More control – the creator of a certain tip sheet can delete tips they feel are inappropriate.
• Showing your links – Unlike Twitter, TipDrop encourages you to have links on your TipDrop page
• Free signup – TipDrop site is supported and monetized with AdSense ads. The nice thing is, if you supply your AdSense Publisher ID in the user settings TipDrop with share 75% of all ad impressions and clicks from your account pages and tip sheets credited to your own AdSense account.

I think TipDrop will do well and will eventually surpass Twitter if the latter does not take drastic changes.

Check out the first tip sheet I created with TipDrop: how to get your computer run faster on it I proposed a drastic way to speed up your computer.

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