Twitter Can Be Liberated - Here's How

"Decentralizing Twitter," writes Michael Arrington, "isn't about having backups of content if the service goes down. It's about making sure that the service as a whole can't go down." The key to this new decentralized Twitter is XMPP, an open standards based instant messaging protocol. Because Twitter is, at its heart, an instant message sent to a group of (self selected) people all at once. Via . Michael Arrington, TechCrunch, May 13, 2008 7:20 a.m.. [Link] [Tags: , , ] [Previous][Next]

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Re: Twitter Can Be Liberated - Here's How

Anymouse, May 16, 2008 11:04 a.m.

I think of Twitter in terms of the tweets in the past...I think I lean more towards an asynchronous interpretation than you, so it makes more sense to me to think of it as a system of microblogs than as instant messaging. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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