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Perhaps one of the most obvious differences with, for example Twitter, is the Contact Groups feature. When posting any items to Pownce, you can specify whether to send it to All Contacts, Individuals, or the public timeline - posts are not automatically placed in the public timeline, and unlike Twitter you can specify whether posts are public (or not) on a post-by-post basis. You could, I guess, consider this to be encompassing Direct Messages, Public status updates and everything in between.
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In a similar style to Tumblr, it offers you post types: in this case Message, Link, File and Event.
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It posts a link and a description. The thing I like about this option is that by specifying an update as a link, instead of just putting it in a 'Message', Pownce's website shows the given URL in a special area, not in-line with the rest of the update, which means that URLs your friends post don't get lost - a nice touch, and keeps the site somewhat less cluttered than Twitter
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Up next is the Event option, which is similar to services like Upcoming.org - post your event and people can RSVP accordingly (with more options than simply watching, attending or neither) - b
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(I'm not entirely convinced with the 'rating' of posts yet - simply making a post a favourite as per Twitter is enough for me)
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