On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Nick Arnett <nick.arn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Chuck Shotton's recent "Twitter is a prototype" comment inspired me to > write a blog post about overcoming the limitations of Twitter's design... > I'm suggesting that Twitter apps should publish their tweetstreams locally > or to a hosted service, as tagged RSS, so that anybody can aggregate, index > and otherwise add value to them... without having to rely exclusively on > Twitter to make the data available. I'm not saying there isn't a role for > Twitter in the future, but I do believe Chuck hit the nail on the head in > terms of their limitations. > > > http://www.nickarnett.net/2009/07/18/developers-unite-throw-off-the-yoke-of-twitter-centralization-and-publish-your-tweetstreams/ > > And now I believe I had better duck. > > Nick > Old news. This topic of conversation has been around since the internetworked opensourced clones like laconi.ca started growing in popularity.
