We all know what a big deal Twitter is, and the power it possesses for social marketing and networking. There is another side to it.. just plain old fashioned socialising without purpose.

There are a number of open source solutions for designers and developers to make their own site like Twitter for your business, pleasure or even to rival Twitter itself.

Here are 10 Open Sourced solutions for you to download and use, there are a mix of languages used, PHP, ASP, Ruby etc… and each site has a fair amount of documentation to get you started.

Asaph – PHP/MySQL

Page Cookery – PHP/MySQL

EchoWaves – Ruby On Rails

Floopo – PHP/MySQL

JaikuEngine – Python

Jisko - PHP & MySQL

Sharetronix - PHP/MySQL

StatusNet (formerly Laconica) – PHP/MySQL

Typepad Motion – Django/Python

Yonkly – ASP.NET

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