We’ve been extremely happy with the positive reaction to Blellow and many freelancers are making great connections and helping each other out already. It’s exciting to see as we’re still in beta.

Twitter is definitely a professional win for all of us at Blellow too & we use it all the time, but personally, I use Twitter very differently than I use Blellow.

For example, if I had a PHP question, I would ask it in Blellow instead of Twitter. The reason? First off, I don’t think I have that many followers who are PHP pros on Twitter. Because of that, a PHP question would not be of interest to most of my audience. Secondly, even if I did have some PHP experts among my followers, they would have to see my question in their twitter stream at the right time in order to answer it.

Conversely, on Blellow, I can be a brand new member without a single person following me, yet can immediately pose my PHP question to a group of PHP experts (or enthusiasts). The group aspect allows me to pose the right questions to the right people about a topic they are definitely interested in. More signal to noise and more likely to get a good answer.

Again, thanks so much for trying Blellow out! We really appreciate it!

Regards,
Jane Harrell
Blellow Team

The challenge for them will be to make the site dissimilar enough from Twitter that it warrants creating and maintaining another account. Right now they’re certainly trying to do that with the job board, groups, and projects. But given that Twitter has been a professional win for me in my ways (even work related questions always get more than a few replies), I’m not sure I need Blellow. It will be interesting to see how many other people feel the same way.