Official: Pownce Set to Shut Down.

Tuesday, December 2nd
by admin

A notice was sent to Pownce users today informing them of the imminent shut down of the micro-blogging system. The message was sent at around 6:30Pm on December 2, 2008. The shut down which is set for the 15th of December is being blamed by their recent acquisition by Six Apart.

Below is information posted by Six Apart on their website:

Pownce has been acquired by the blogging company Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, TypePad and Vox. To find out more about the acquisition please read the announcement by Six Apart CEO Chris Alden, and the announcement by Pownce Founder Leah Culver.

Pownce.com will be Shutting Down

Pownce.com will be shut down by December 15, 2008. If you would like to keep your content, we have created an export tool to assist you under Settings > Export. But please be sure to have exported your content by December 15, 2008 as it will not be accessible after that date.

We want to thank you for building the Pownce community. We are sad we must close Pownce.com, but we encourage you to continue the spirit of Pownce on Vox or TypePad.

A New Beginning

The Pownce team is excited about joining Six Apart. Six Apart has some excellent services to help you stay in touch and share with friends and to reach new readers.

Pownce, which is a similar site to Twitter couldn’t keep up with their competitors after those competitors hit the big leagues being mentioned within big companies such as CNN, and also from being used in Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign. Although it was a great platform, Pownce just couldn’t keep up.