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Simply you cannot do a better Twitter/Facebook/Google/E-type/Mustang/GTO/Coca-Cola/Pepsi... Your new creation may look like the old thing. As long as you have a new idea, your product will feel different if you succeed. The brands I just wrote are good examples of this view. I'm sure HN community know these examples very well...

Twitter was viewed, at the start, like a microblogging tool but Twitter was Twitter, not a microblogger. Our "New Twitter" is exactly like the Twitter with a few (hopefully) well placed features, even simpler and easier to use. Tusulog may look like Twitter, feel like Twitter or function like Twitter, Tusulog is not Twitter. I'm writing this post before we're done with this redesign-completely-thing because of the latest meme by Dalton Caldwell which is trying to offer a new paid Twitter.

If you try Tusulog and send your opinions here I'll be glad...

Our start-up Tusulog.com is a new social network site similar to Google+ that we've been working for 4 months without knowing what Google+ was/will be. Then they have shipped their unfinished product just days before we did. You can check my comments on HN which were 29 days old to see our idea roughly.

It may look similar but we think if you use Tusulog you'll have better SN experience for normal people (provided that your name is not Robert Scoble or Louis Gray). Our main difference is that we limit noise by default. For example, there is no "following people" concept. You can mute an entire group (groups are what Google+ calls as circles). You can have public discussion in one giant stream and also in specialized "channels" in addition to private groups. Then, honestly, they have very very cool video apps which we don't. Their photos product is way ahead then our non-existant but coming ours.

Our target demographic is normal people using their PCs to use SNs. My question is: How should we market our product to persuade consumers use ours instead of sexy Google+?