Tim Wintle wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:58 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: >> Oh wow. If this is what Twitter does to one's ability to articulate >> clearly, I hope Twitter dies a horrible death and any APIs and Python >> bindings with it! > > Thank you, thank you, thank you .... > > everyone around me seems to love that thing (twitter), and I still can't > work out why (apart from hacks such as using it as a hosted queue for > cross-server comms, or receiving cheap sms to your app)
Yeah. Of course I always thought that IRC was a good fit for this purpose. Virus writers seem to think so. I wonder how Twitter would deal with viruses and worms using Twitter and a command and control communications mechanism. People who love Twitter are also people who SMS a lot it seems. Twitter probably is a natural evolution of SMS, melding the IRC idea with ridiculously short, hard-to-read, cryptic, lol-speak, messages. I think the Japanese just might be on to something as no one over there uses SMS. It's all e-mail to them. Granted the scourge of abbreviated words and lol-speak is just as bad there. Sigh. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
