I first wrote about Kwippy back in August of this year in a post titled, “What’s all the Kwippy about?” My review was rather short and ultimately called into question the company’s credo, It’ll Change the Way You Blog and Network. My user experience left me a tad lackluster and I was quick to call the burgeoning microblogging platform yet another Twitter or Plurk platform.

How can one lady be so wrong?

Months later, I’m a self-proclaimed Kwippy junkie and it remains a main staple in my everyday microblogging diet. What changed was a simple but genius feature of the platform, whereby users can invite members to join in a conversation. All told, I kept receiving invites by some of the more active users in the community and the inclusion touched a very human part of me, the desire to be welcomed by a group and liked enough to be sought out to share my opinion, thoughts, ponderings and quips.

Perhaps it’s so obvious that we forget the sentiment, but the feeling of being apart of something bigger than yourself, having friends with whom you can share mutual interests and stimulating discussions, is the cornerstone of all these social platforms (marketing shenanigans aside.) The Kwippy developers were obviously savvy enough to build in an “inclusive” feature into their platform. I believe it’s the reason why I and so many others have made Kwippy a part of our daily diet; not to mention the intelligent community, the no-character limit to your updates, the opportunity to connect with the developers, and the Ping.fm integration.

Attention deficiency disorders aside, there is way too much competing for our attention as we venture forth into the world-wide web. We all update our life’s happenings on various platforms and streamline these updates along with our friends’ on flow applications like FriendFeed or the new self-proclaimed “day-flow” application YouAre.com. Where is all this life-quipping-streaming aggregation going to lead?

 

My money is on those developers with the foresight to create more humanized platforms, like Kwippy, and those that make it easier to connect, enliven our lives and engender the feeling of inclusiveness.