Woofer for 'when 140-characters is not enough'

LONDON - Woofer, a 'macroblogging' website dubbing itself the 'anti-Twitter' is inviting users to shed their 140-character shackles and really speak their mind, at a minimum of 1,400 characters at a time.

explains itself as a novelty website and homage to Twitter, a sort of social networking experiment, which asks its users to: "Be eloquent, use adverbs and DEA (don't ever abbreviate)."

So far about 9,000 users have taken the Woofer challenge. Its website looks exactly like the Twitter homepage, except with a large 1,400 character countdown at the top of the screen.

Users, or Woofers, can attribute their posts to their Twitter names.

The website was created by digital firm Join the Company, which also hosts the online challenge game, Shuffletime.

On the main Woofer page, an interactive advertisement for Shuffletime appears in the right-hand corner, suggesting that the website is simply a marketing stunt for Join the Company's main website.

The Twitter-style search box does not actually search Woofer but simply redirects users to Google.

Legal disclaimers are clearly evident across Woofer, which insist the website is not affiliated "in any way whatsoever" with Twitter, including a link that asks: 'Is this Twitter?' which leads to a separate page that simply reads "No" in giant letters.

Earlier this week, the official Twitter website gave its endorsement to a newly published book, called Twitter Wit, which features "the funniest tweets of all time".