BeeMood is just about as straight-up a Twitter clone as you could hope to find, targeting Italy. Users get their own page where they can update their status, reply to others, or see the most recent Tweets BeeMoods from the people they follow. You can also post and receive updates via SMS on your mobile.
The one “original” feature of BeeMood is their map that shows where recent updates are coming from geographically. However, this also really isn’t their idea – it’s a rip of Twittervision, a mashup built using Twitter’s API and Google Maps.
It’s easy to knock so-called “clones” of popular services for having zero originality and what some might argue is a lack of integrity. However, so long as the original site they are copying waits to enter new markets, the strategy seems to be fair game, and one that can result in a profitable exit for founders.
StudiVZ, a German Facebook clone, sold for more than $100 million. The financiers behind StudiVZ, the Samwer Brothers, are also invested in Frazr, a Twitter clone for France and Germany, that appears to be getting decent traction from a quick poke around the site.
For more copycat goodness, check out “Exposed: The 7 Most Blatant Web 2.0 Rip Offs“
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