Comments on: Decentralized Twitter’s time has come http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:10:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: links for 2008-05-15 | stuart henshall http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-246064 links for 2008-05-15 | stuart henshall Thu, 15 May 2008 08:39:50 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-246064 [...] Decentralized Twitter’s time has come Marc on Twitter… Should we have all our eggs in one basket? What’s the difference between Twitter and Weblogs.com — in the beginning. I personally want my own twitter engine but I almost have that already. Is not Twitter just a pipe? (tags: twitter marccanter) [...] […] Decentralized Twitter’s time has come Marc on Twitter… Should we have all our eggs in one basket? What’s the difference between Twitter and Weblogs.com — in the beginning. I personally want my own twitter engine but I almost have that already. Is not Twitter just a pipe? (tags: twitter marccanter) […]

]]> By: 101 Twitter Resources | Traffikd http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-246027 101 Twitter Resources | Traffikd Tue, 13 May 2008 00:16:08 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-246027 [...] Decentralized Twitter’s Time Has Come - BroadbandMechanics.com [...] […] Decentralized Twitter’s Time Has Come - BroadbandMechanics.com […]

]]> By: Twitter: the decentralization debate » mathewingram.com/work | http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-246001 Twitter: the decentralization debate » mathewingram.com/work | Sun, 11 May 2008 20:21:24 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-246001 [...] important enough to be having these kinds of conversations, although Marc Canter has compared it to the domain name system that powers the Internet, and Dave Winer has said he’s afraid that losing Twitter could be [...] […] important enough to be having these kinds of conversations, although Marc Canter has compared it to the domain name system that powers the Internet, and Dave Winer has said he’s afraid that losing Twitter could be […]

]]> By: Chris http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-245996 Chris Sun, 11 May 2008 13:10:58 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-245996 Maybe I need to RTFA but... Wouldn't decentralized Twitter just be RSS driven email? If you didn't have a centralized authority limiting it, wouldn't people want to raise the 140 character limit, ad pictures, attachments, multiple CCs and BCs, categories, tags etc. etc.? And if you really want your own twitter for some localized or private purpose, it seems that it would be simple enough to do, I'm not much of a programmer, but I could write a version of Twitter for my Lan in a weekend. Twitter isn't about the technology. Twitter's magic is that they have aggregated peoples attention. That's my thought anyway. Maybe I need to RTFA but…
Wouldn’t decentralized Twitter just be RSS driven email?

If you didn’t have a centralized authority limiting it, wouldn’t people want to raise the 140 character limit, ad pictures, attachments, multiple CCs and BCs, categories, tags etc. etc.?

And if you really want your own twitter for some localized or private purpose, it seems that it would be simple enough to do, I’m not much of a programmer, but I could write a version of Twitter for my Lan in a weekend.

Twitter isn’t about the technology. Twitter’s magic is that they have aggregated peoples attention. That’s my thought anyway.

]]> By: scary movie 2 » Blog Archive » Why decentralizing Twitter is so important http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-245954 scary movie 2 » Blog Archive » Why decentralizing Twitter is so important Thu, 08 May 2008 21:37:15 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-245954 [...] Update #2: Marc Canter checks in. [...] […] Update #2: Marc Canter checks in. […]

]]> By: the tweney review » Blog Archive » Links for May 2nd through May 6th http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-245898 the tweney review » Blog Archive » Links for May 2nd through May 6th Wed, 07 May 2008 00:30:44 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-245898 [...] Marc?s Voice » Blog Archive » Decentralized Twitter’s time has come - People are upset about Twitter outages. So they want a decentralized, DNS-like replacement. My question: Do you really care about Twitter that much? [...] […] Marc?s Voice » Blog Archive » Decentralized Twitter’s time has come - People are upset about Twitter outages. So they want a decentralized, DNS-like replacement. My question: Do you really care about Twitter that much? […]

]]> By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » My Words are my Sword http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-245884 Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » My Words are my Sword Tue, 06 May 2008 18:59:21 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-245884 [...] my gut tells me there’s something wrong with Twitter - I complain about it early and [...] […] my gut tells me there’s something wrong with Twitter - I complain about it early and […]

]]> By: Solving The Twitter Problem(s) « The Abstract Truth http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-245871 Solving The Twitter Problem(s) « The Abstract Truth Tue, 06 May 2008 12:29:30 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-245871 [...] by rbpasker on May 6, 2008 The net is atwitter with solutions to the “Twitter Problem,” which is that Twitter keeps going [...] […] by rbpasker on May 6, 2008 The net is atwitter with solutions to the “Twitter Problem,” which is that Twitter keeps going […]

]]> By: WinExtra » Twitter: IRC with a new shade of lipstick http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-245849 WinExtra » Twitter: IRC with a new shade of lipstick Mon, 05 May 2008 22:33:14 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-245849 [...] what these folks like Dave Winer, Marc Canter and Michael Arrington would like to see happen to Twitter already exists it just needs some clever [...] […] what these folks like Dave Winer, Marc Canter and Michael Arrington would like to see happen to Twitter already exists it just needs some clever […]

]]> By: Does Twitter need to be killed or fixed? » mathewingram.com/work | http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-245845 Does Twitter need to be killed or fixed? » mathewingram.com/work | Mon, 05 May 2008 19:54:01 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/decentralized-twitters-time-has-come#comment-245845 [...] Web guy, says Twitter needs to be decentralized and standardized because it’s as important as the DNS system behind the [...] […] Web guy, says Twitter needs to be decentralized and standardized because it’s as important as the DNS system behind the […]

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