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I’ve always said (always? yeah, really, for decades now) that what really tied me to Twitter was Twitterific, and I couldn’t switch to Jaiku, although it’s more functional, because it doesn’t have that.

Well, it does: Juhu [via] [via] is very, very clearly inspired by Twitterific (except it’s white, which I’ve wanted forever) and brings all of Jaiku’s functionalities to the table: comments, icons and geopresence. Now all I have to do is convince my contacts to switch to Jaiku.

Here’s the deal: on your Jaiku page (on which you can only change the background color/image for now, unfortunately) you don’t only have 140-character statuses, but also the ability to aggregate all your feeds in one place. And, unlike Twitter (for now), everything is commentable.

You don’t even need to use it, either — if you like Twitter better, all you have to do is create a Jaiku profile, add me as a contact (I’m talking to my existing contacts here, disregard that step if I don’t know you) and just add your Twitter feed’s URL to your profile. Your Jaiku page will automatically replicate your updates.

Actually, I’m not quite sure the Jaiku interface, the site’s layout and the additional functionalities would work quite well to generate the same kind of microblogging that Twitter does — I like that Twitter, and Twitterific, only lists that specific content (I could hardly say otherwise after complaining to my contacts using Twitterfeed). But at the very least importing your status feed to Jaiku would make your updates commentable.