Google has finally started pumping in the google muscle behind Jaiku which it acquired last year to take on the micro blogging leader and today’s buzz platform twitter head on. According to this post by Jaiku invites Jaiku has now been shifted from their earlier finnish servers to the Google App Engine. For those who are wondering why this is important its because this means Jaiku is now on Google infrastructure which means fewer downtime and robust engine. Now now how many of us who are on twitter have had issues with the little bird informing us about the downtime at twitter! So much so that now there are services that lets you backup your twitter data incase twitter goes down and loses it! Inorder to keep spammers at bay and their downtime limited twitter also added restrictions recently on how many people one can follow.

Jaiku seems pretty serious and if you try accessing Jaiku you would find a we are shifting nest (servers) page which states that they would be offline till they shift completely. Good things could be seen in the coming days from Jaiku as Google is known to add its value and muscle power to the startups its acquires and is also known to quickly integrate them with its services.

Here is what one can expect from Jaiku:

1) Lesser downtimes

2) Possible Integration with google’s services

3) Google id integration

4) Better mobile app and ofcourse a iPhone app.

On the whole it does seem like Jaiku is pretty well placed to challenge twitter tweets in the online space with google’s solid backing both in infrastructure and the cross property traction that google could bring into the picture.

What do you think? Is this enough reason to jaiku rather than twitter?

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