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Mike Bogle at Tech Ticker has an excellent post comparing and contrasting Prologue and Twitter:

Wordpress launched Prologue today, in a move that many technophiles and bloggers have immediately heralded as the death of Twitter. Personally, I think the hype has gotten the better of far too many people.

Twitter and Prologue are both very solid applications that offer a tremendous amount of value to users, however they serve distinctly different purposes and have few real similarities. As a result, Prologue is likely to appeal to a completely different user niche than Twitter, and won?t pose any major threat to its market share.

Before I go any further though, a background is warranted. Prologue is a new Wordpress theme that can be applied to their traditional blogs. As Wordpress explains:

??when someone has the ability to post to a blog they see a short form at the top of the home page with a post box and tags. There they can post short messages about what they?re doing.?

The end result, such as the one I?ve created here, is a collaborative blog designed to house the rapid-fire posts and resulting discussions of a select group of people. There can be as many or as few editors as desired, and posts can be either restricted to the group or publicly available to the entire web.

As with normal blog posts, Prologue posts can be tagged with key identifiers. Tags are then allocated a unique URL, where all posts tagged with the same term will appear. Importantly, tags are also allocated a unique RSS feed, thus enabling readers to narrow their feed subscriptions to a specific topic or thread.

Now to compare and contrast. 

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