Kik Messenger Phone App

I'm on it as: cujoderek

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I already have Twitter, which lets me internationally text people for free. Why would I want this?

Who knows? I'm not a tech-head and I'm not even going to attempt to put together an informed argument. I don't have twitter either, so there's that.

FINE, KIRK! YOU DON'T WANT TO TALK TO ME. I GET IT, MAN. YOU DON'T HAVE TO RUB IT IN!

You stole my thread!

I'm mekiper.

PS

You can get it for Android, iPhone or Blackberry.

Oh, did you make a thread already, Melody?

If you don't like the idea of it Kirk then don't bother. I don't see the point of you pissing about it here in an innocent thread.

It's not half-baked at all. It's just like receiving a text message, and you can back and forth for ages, having a legit discussion. Where as, with Twitter you're limited to 120 characters and just annoy everyone else on your feed by blasting out texts every three seconds.

Nah, I just mentioned it to Derek. I was going to when I got home from work, but you beat me to it.

FYI: That is exactly how Twitter works, and was designed to work. And it sends directly to your normal phone, so it works exactly like text messages. You don't even need an additional app for it.

I'm just trying to figure out where this really fills a need is all.

Looking at this, it's really just another instant messenger service, isn't it? Only, an instant messenger that is intended to be used on a phone.

I don't have twitter and I don't care to have it. Kik looks a lot like my text app on my phone and lets me talk to Derek and Matty. I like it for that. It does what I want it to. Just cause you like twitter doesn't mean you need to piss on what we're choosing to use to talk to each other.

I guess so. But I don't have Twitter, and I don't want it. I just want to be able to keep up a constant dialogue with international friends that remains private and doesn't cost me an extra 40 bucks a month because international texts are like .50 each. I don't see how they're the same thing at all. But, I guess, I just see Twitter as a digital gossip column for celebrities.

Sorry, if you're offended. I'm just genuinely trying to figure out what hole this really serves as a product when there are already similar, much more heavily used services that do essentially the same thing.

It would be like trying to make an alternative to the telephone. Sure, it might be a decent idea, but everyone already has a telephone, you know?

Looking at what appears to be comments by someone who works for Kik, they say that it's basically Gtalk. With the benefit that you can also use it to message non-kik members. Which is interesting.

My point with Twitter was, it already does this stuff, though in a slightly different way since it uses SMS instead of data. The benefit being, with Twitter you don't really need to talk someone into trying a new service. Chance are, they already have an account.

Inwould say something but I would get banned.

Doesn't twitter just take what you say and make it public for everyone to read? Unless it does something I don't know about its a pretty different idea. It is a lot like an IM program, but you don't have to be signed on to send or receive messages. Its really just like texting only its free.

And I'm pretty sure none of us have twitter so all three of us would have to be talked into it if we wanted to communicate that way.

And I don't know what gtalk is.

You set up your Twitter account and then link it to your phone number. Then whenever someone sends you a message it automatically comes into your phone as a text message. So in your case, it is just a normal text message charge. I'm assuming like most people, you have unlimited texting.

Where Kik seems to have a decent idea is that you can use it without having a SMS service. So I guess that is nice for some people. Though I don't know anyone without texting these days.

when someone sends you a message on twitter do you get a message from twitter saying you got a message from blah blah or does it actually come from their name?

- Those that you just send out, anyone can read.
- Those that you send out, and mention another person in, notifying them and anyone can read it
- Those that are 'direct messages' that are sent only to a particular user. This is how it works like a traditional text message or PM.

Gtalk is basically the Google version of what you're describing. Everyone who has a Google account has access to it.

If you 3 are happy using it, that's cool. Like I said, I'm just trying to understand why you would choose this over any number of other services that do essentially the same thing. In this case, it sounds like it's for people who don't already have Twitter.

If that's a niche they can carve out for themselves, cool.

The only downside I can see is that you can't send MMSs. So, sorry guys, no noodz. Bummer.

Actually, that could be a very huge benefit.

Yeah, I'm disappointed, really. But, seriously, if they had that capability, they'd probably be killing it.

Matt it says it your username is wrong. It keeps recommending modonnell for you though.

I just got this.

My username: pgoutis01

Oh, maybe GotSoul? Isn't my username? What is it, Pete? We've just been texting back and forth, so it eventually worked out. Shed some light, man.

pajourdan

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Matt's is: modonnell

Cujo is cujoderek

Hahahaha!

That's right, Pete. I forgot I couldn't use GotSoul? Ha. Right. modonnell it is.

That app is hell on batteries...

Maybe we can find a better one?

Batteries, shmatteries!

Really though, I was talking to Pete last night with my phone plugged in and it died. It couldn't keep up. Part of that is due to the battery life on the Evo being utter shit anyway, but thats pretty pathetic. We'll just all have to keep our chargers with us all the time!

I'm enjoying it. I was chatting with Frank, Monkey, Melody, Pete and Matt so far.

Frank and Mike best add me soon or I'm gonna go ahead and feel unloved.

Mike and Frank prolly only wanna talk to Derek, but its okay, he IS pretty awesome.

Whatever!

Oh yes, I'm MiggityMcWilly.

I forgot to add my name.

Bump. Anyone else use this?

I will probably never use this for any culties (or anybody else for that matter) that live in the U.S.

But it is really cool for you guys that live in other countries. So it's not so bad now that I think about it. It might suck because it drains my battery. But there are only a few people that I care to converse with on there right now anyway because it is a free way to do so.

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