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There’s even MOAR talk today about leaving  Twitter for other services.

The point that you hear so often is that people don’t leave Twitter because of the community, rather than staying for its tool set.

So of course, people suggest a move to Pownce or Friendfeed (or Jaiku if they need a nice three-item list).

But the surprise comes when you think about the fact that nobody’s talking about the splintering.

There isn’t going to ever be a mass exodus to one service.  Many will stay on Twitter, some will move to Pownce, some will move to Friendfeed, others will move to Jaiku, still others will tweet with Jabber or RSS, etc.

The reason people need to be more focused on the reconstruction is that this community will never again be rebuilt.

Microblogging will be forever fragmented and that, my friend, is what needs to be taken very seriously.

Remember how great Napster was?  That’s because everyone was on it.  Once the same pool was spread over five or six different p2p clients, things got harder to find.

It’s inevitable, but it’s not a splintering we should be quick to embrace.