On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Nick Arnett <nick.arn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Andrew Badera <and...@badera.us> wrote: > >> >> Old news. This topic of conversation has been around since the >> internetworked opensourced clones like laconi.ca started growing in >> popularity. >> >> I think you missed the point. What if TweetDeck, for example, by default > also published the user's tweetstream as an RSS feed, letting the user > choose where to publish it? What if every app did that? Everybody's > tweetstreams would be distributed on the Internet, rather than centralized > at Twitter. > > Before Twitter existed, nobody had the traction to make this happen. There > wasn't even a place for developers to *talk* about this level of > cooperation. But now there is, right here. > > Does anybody really think that the current centralized model can scale as > fast as the market wants? > > Seems to me that it is in the best interests of app developers to work > together toward less dependency on Twitter as a repository. And even though > it might seem like it is against Twitter's interest to do so, in the long > run I suspect its very survival depends on finding a role in which it > doesn't have to have every tweet on the planet flow through its servers. > > Nick > Like I said, old news. The same points have been made previously as I mentioned. And either way, certianly not the biggest blip on my radar, from a business app perspective.
