We’ve seen our fair share of Twitter-clones for Christians and I can expect we’ll see even more as time passes. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing but I think it’s a healthy thing to ask ourselves “Why?”.
Here’s another one that I checked out last night:
Prayter is your prayer-version of Twitter where you can post prayer requests and pray for others.
It’s everything you’d expect from a clone. It’s still in “alpha” and there are a few things that are apparently not working:
I like the angle and perhaps some could get some encouragement through it. We’ll see if it grows!
Matthew Snider says
Yikes – what else can we waste our time with these days!!
Prayter says
I’m agree that for geeks that is enough to “waste time” and efforts on twitter.com, rock stars or athletes can have fun there too. Most of the christian people will not use at all. One of the reason because of privacy.
Don’t you think so?
Chris Loach says
Why, why, why do Christians always do this???
Matthew Snider says
I was thinking the same thing brother!
Prayter says
Sometimes we think that we should not create new things, but adopt something what already works. But main question for me is “Why christian does things so ugly especially on the tech world?”. Look at the most websites… there are few which made good (like churchcrunch).
brett barner says
Surprisingly decent design. Stuck on “but why?”
Prayter says
Friends you mentioned that where were some christian clones of Twitter already. I don’t doubt they were there. Could you provide a link or a name if it’s died already. Thanks…
beth g sanders says
Yikes. Just awful. When are we gonna retire the praying hands?
Why, indeed.
Jeremy says
They might want to try “messenger” instead of “messanger”. Then again, it might be a Web 2.0 thing I don’t understand. ;-D
Chris Loach says
I mean a prayer site is good and all but to rip off twitter with it…not cool.
CFM says
There is no way that prayer site can rip off twitter, I’m agree. There is no such a goal. Twitter is Great for posting business news and updates, personal updates or even empty messages to no where.
We started to develop prayter for our home church group, which grew quite big last year. Some people left city and live in other cities now but to keep all prayer updates and still pray for others we create prayter website. Facebook? Twitter? Main question was how we can do that in private and easy way?
For that reason we want to create an ability to run private or even hidden groups for people who know each other. But that is going to be simple application with web and mobile interfaces with ability to send SMS and etc. Our 1st test will be with our home group.
Some public features include: national or country day of prayer, worldwide prayer challenges or other huge christian holidays. We also want to put new type of prayter which we call Urgent prayter with some functionality and reason for that.
Sorry for talking to much and too detailed, but i think your website is (and going to be even more) the place where christian start-upers can talk, share and discuss.
Thanks for such a place
Please share any ideas, comments and even rebukes )))
Trevor Taylor says
If the idea is not to be a Twitter clone, then take all appearances of Twitter away (like the “ter” on Prayter).
I long for the day when Christ’s followers can once again be people who influence culture instead of copying it.
prayter says
“I long for the day when Christ’s followers can once again be people who influence culture instead of copying it.” – Amen. Dream of that too!