On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 5:51 PM, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin quoting Todd Walton as of Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 06:54:29PM -0500: >> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > PS. For a real dose of silliness http://twitter.com/ >> >> What? You're not going to explain what's at that link? >> >> j/k >> > > Slow-motion IRC.
Nope. That's what I thought at first but that's not it. Think about the follower/following networks. You just cannot do that for every user with IRC. See http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/01/18/faqIsDecentralizedTwitterJ.html Twitter is actually a real time notification service, or will be if they ever get the scaling worked out. As such it will be hugely useful. I am looking at apps based on that functionality. As twitter chat it will be hugely popular. Why? Because people all over the world love to engage in idle chatter. The less content the better. Have you ever watched Fiipinos texting? This will likely turn into a billion user global network. The company "twitter" may or may not survive though. But twitter will. > -- > Now, with frequent crashes! > Stewart Stremler For your amusement here is a FOSS twitter server written in Erlang. http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2008/05/28/announcing-twoorl-an-open-source-erlyweb-based-twitter-clone/ Maybe this is the next Apache :) BobLQ -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
