About #wire

PoundWire is not just another social network. It is a social news network. And It is the only social news network that puts the quality of the news ahead of the source.

On other networks when you follow people, you get everything they're thinking and doing, from industry news to family vacations. You have to sift through their entire brain dump, looking for those little gems of information or inspiration. Now imagine if you only had to read what you want from the people you follow?

That's PoundWire.

Here on PoundWire, nobody is stuck with noisy "all or nothing" brain dumps.

Plus, you will be recognized and followed for your expert knowledge. How do you prove you have expert knowledge? The community decides.

#wire believes the solution to social news is:

  • Let you follow topics and stories directly. And in your feed.
  • Let you filter the people you follow.
  • And if you can follow anything, you should be able to set an expiration on it; because breaking news changes daily.
  • Let you decide who the real Experts are.
  • Let you comment on a post. Your replies shouldn't get lost in the noise, or only be shared only with the author.
  • Let you attach a picture right to your post, without an outside service. Because news is best when it has a picture to support it.
  • Let you shorten any URL, again without an outside service, and with one click - so you have more space for the message.
  • Let you save a post. Because we're all busy people, and sometimes you have to set stuff aside for later.
  • If Friedhelm Hillebrand, the inventor of the 160 character SMS limit, says you can relay any thought in 160 characters - we give you all 160!

So there it is, PoundWire. Or for short, #wire.