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Newest Facebook, Twitter Competition: Chime.in

Posted By Abe Brown On October 18, 2011 @ 3:01 pm In Blogging and Social Media,Internet and Online Business | 1 Comment

Watch out, Facebook ^[1] and Twitter ^[2]. You’ve got some new competition. It’s…Chime.in.

The new social-media platform will let users create “Chimes.” These are images, videos, polls, and links that you can cross-post to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ ^[3]. You can sort Chimes by interests, who shared them, popularity, and date. You follow Chimers, like Twitter. There’s some hope for the new company, since its creator, UberMedia ^[4], has already explored the sector, creating UberSocial ^[5], a Twitter app.

Chime.in hopes to attract business from the start, in a way that other social-media sites haven’t. It promises high monetization, allowing current publishers like Universal ^[6], Bravo ^[7], and Disney ^[8] to receive 100 percent of ad revenues. Those publishers will receive 50 percent of any ads UberMedia places for the publisher.