it was invite only last time i checked. it is superior to twitter in nearly every way, except the community. I doubt it ever will compete with friendfeed... i suspect google has bigger plans for it. - David Petar Novakovic from twhirl

Why the answer to both questions isn't positive is a question that deeply puzzles me... - Rubin Sfadj

It's still in beta and invite only. I just got in there and it seems a lot better than Twitter. It also in some ways reminds me of friendfeed although friendfeed has som unique features Jaiku doesn't seem to have. - Rutger Blom

Jaiku has lost momentum since last year - they where ahead but missed to go public and advance.... now i don´t see any chance for them to compete other then integrating fully into gmail :-) - Dieter Schwarz

Cyvros/fyc, Jaiku is using the public RSS-feed of the different services instead of username/password. - Rutger Blom

my personal feeling is that jaiku is an android play. ;) - David Petar Novakovic from twhirl

I've been using it, I like it, but not many people I know are on it. Apparently it's only being worked on as a 20% project, see this comment on my site: http://blog.slaven.net.au/archive... - Glenn Slaven

I really like it but, as others have said, there's not many people on there. Need a way to invite all my Twitter contacts onto it. I'm surprised Google haven't integrated it - would seem such an easy thing to do. - David Sim

I feel that Twitter is lossing more users to Friendfeed then to Jaiku. Jaiku is nice FF is better. Twitter has the best user base. The question will be will they shape up before they are loosing too many users. - Erno Hannink

I was really impressed with Jaiku when it first came out, but it didn't attract the crowds that Twitter had. I left. They were moving in an interesting "presence awareness" direction with mobile phone integration. Sort of a Twitter meets Brightkite arrangement. Lots of contact integration. These neat mobile things only worked on the Nokia phones though. Android integration for sure. - Sean Brady

Same as Pownce, there is 'nobody' there :( - Alex Barredo