Announcing…PetStatus.com!

March 11, 2010 on 10:01 am | In Funnyish, New Features, Updates by Brett | 13 Comments

Twitter‘s okay I guess. 10 billion tweets is a big milestone.

But Twitter has one fatal flaw: it caters to people.

Animals are well-represented all over the Internet in wikipedia articles and blog posts, but those are all written by humans on behalf of animals.

Three quarters of Americans think that it’s “‘egotistical and a waste of time’ to develop a Facebook page for a pet”. Surely that means that 25% of Americans – over 75 million people – think it’s a great idea!

The evidence is clear. Pets deserve a voice of their own on the Internet. So today we’re launching…

PetStatus.com

PetStatus.com is just like Twitter…except it’s very clearly designed for pets, by pets.

Just look at the rich embeddable experience that awaits you and your pets:

And that’s just the half of it. Pets aren’t limited to submitting status updates and following others through the web – they can use a growing number of third-party micro-blogging clients to stay on top of their friends’ latest exploits.

If your pets are anything like mine, they don’t think too much of humans…
Some people are destined to be single their entire lives.

They’ve also got a lot of free time on their hands – much more than I do. Suddenly ten billion doesn’t seem so far away!

Remember, PetStatus.com is for non-humans only. That goes double for you, Samurai Unicorn guy.

Status.net, our new one-click software package, powers the entire operation. DreamHost customers can now install Status.net to their own domains with a single mouse click – making specialized Twitter clones at whim in a matter of seconds!

So start spreading the word – your pets will be heard!

13 Responses to “Announcing…PetStatus.com!”

  1. GeeksRock Says:
    March 11th, 2010 at 10:46 am

    I shall create a community for Pet Rocks worldwide! >:]

  2. jeremy_ Says:
    March 11th, 2010 at 4:14 pm

    Best idea ever.

  3. mattack Says:
    March 11th, 2010 at 5:36 pm

    One-click Status.net, FTW!

  4. xiaoyu Says:
    March 11th, 2010 at 5:40 pm

    prefect source..

  5. Fred Says:
    March 11th, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    I think pets need dating ;)

  6. manbearpig Says:
    March 11th, 2010 at 7:21 pm

    So I did a clean One Click Install in a fresh directory on my DH domain, but both Register and Login kick me back to my root domain home page. We can haz walkthrough?

    Thanks for making this 1-Click happen so quickly!

  7. arramuse Says:
    March 12th, 2010 at 2:55 am

    haha.. looks like… tweetcats

  8. Cameron Says:
    March 12th, 2010 at 5:01 am

    Haha. This is epic.

  9. Joanie Wilcett Says:
    March 12th, 2010 at 3:01 pm

    Great idea! Maybe add GPS so we can tell where our pets are :)

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    March 13th, 2010 at 6:57 am

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  11. Mike P. Says:
    March 14th, 2010 at 5:34 pm

    @manbearpig We found a bug in some install cases but it should’ve been fixed right away. Just try deleting the install and try again. If that still doesn’t work, send a support ticket and we’ll help you out!

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  13. Isabelle White Says:
    May 1st, 2010 at 5:40 am

    microblogging is really useful when you want to broadcast short updates. i am still leaning towards traditional blogging.;,,

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