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The move to Jaiku
After Twitter's decision to stop SMS support in all countries except US, UK and India, the Doweiqa rockslide triggered another need for networked communication while on the move. Talking to Malek over the phone, he asked me to spread the news on Jaiku. On 15 September 2008, Malek sent a tweet from the web http://twitter.com/MaLek/statuses/922159676 asking if anyone needs Jaiku invites (Jaiku is still in beta at the time). A number of people had Jaiku accounts already. Malek's tweet, however, revitalised those users, and invited helped to move the rest of the blogger/activist network over to Jaiku. By 19 September 2008, the move was almost complete.Thank Mostafa for the help on this one. We are chatting on midnight 24 September 2008. He pointed my attention to the swift move. I added this is a good time to introduce the decentralised, open social network now, as the situation helps explain how it is superior.
Mostafa wrote:
MalekX, after weeks of twitter announced end of SMS to international users, decided to twitter about Jaiku with enthuthiasm and started to send invites. He also blogged about it and created a how to help people enter their phone numbers.
I think people who were reluctant at first decided to migrate when they found a considerable number of people joining the other network .. and most importantly found out that conversations started to take place in the new land
secondly some decided not to cut off communication with their original network by using ping.fm
tab3an, when people found out that SMS worked they were convinced with the migration
however now people are doubtful of Malek's prophecy and are making a golden calf
also malek responded with technical support to people who wanted help with jaiku
his first message mentioning Jaiku invitations http://twitter.com/MaLek/statuses/922159676
I guess the migration was almost complete by the 19th of September
Mostafa then, being the geek he is, continued:
you can plot the number of twitters from the core members of the network 23:59:53 Mostafa Hussein over time 00:00:58 Mostafa Hussein and plot the number of jaikus from the same core members and superimpose them to get an idea of the migration .. ya3ny tab3an this is difficult bas will be interesting