Dembot: Dembot - How To Keep Twitter from Crashing in a Crisis
jamiew
· 1 year ago
I don't think twitter is going to switch to an open & distributed model any time soon, but cross-posting to Facebook/Jaiku/etc. is pretty much distributed micro-blogging.
Just need that elusive shared friends list. It isn't too tough to do by hand in the meantime
Andrew Badera
· 1 year ago
Hey, that's a good idea.
Wait, it sounds like any number of IM programs already implemented.
How is this innovative? Twitter is a victim of its nature. Change its nature, and it's no longer Twitter.
veverkap
· 1 year ago
Using FriendFeed, I autopost to Facebook. It would be great if Twitter supported decentralization, though. Lately, their service has been pretty spotty.
WTL
· 1 year ago
While I was disappointed with Twitter's downtime, Tumblr isn't likely going to get me there just yet. I don't know why, but Tumblr/Pownce just don't do it for me.
Scott
· 1 year ago
Twitters sole existence, like most web 2.0-ish apps is to get enough VC interest or to get Google's attention so that they can/will buy them. Didn't happen thus Twitter dies.
thats some of my friends twitter feeds and could be just their micropublishing feeds if it would go that way. So yes, Noserub is something going in that directions. I can't write on noserub yet though but hey, writing a single user twitter can't be that hard ;)
rmpenguino
· 1 year ago
Tom Watson at http://tincorporated.com already made a similar home brew solution for himself incorporating several services. Seems like these API hooks into the services are decentralizing assets on Delicious, Flickr, Twitter, etc so if either side ever failed there is a backup. Perhaps a step further would be a peer-to-peer architecture hosting all these assets. So if your comments went down, the conversation could still continue throughout the blogosphere in a decentralized Disqus. Right now Disqus has decentralized the conversation, a step further would be the hosting.
Jason Pedley
· 1 year ago
"Consider how Federal Express operates. Every single package you send via FedEx in the US gets shipped to Memphis. Once its tracked in Memphis, it then gets sent to it’s destination. If you live in Dallas and you send a Fed-Ex package to near-by Houston, the package will go from Dallas all the way to Memphis and then all the way back across to Houston. It sounds crazy at first but it’s very simple and leads to less confusion and less lost packages."
100% untrue. Check your facts. FedEx has other hubs that could handle the extra traffic in an emergency. And your Houston-via-Memphis comment is untrue as well. Are you saying that if I ship 1,000 boxes within my city, FedEx will waste precious space and fuel on a jet when there are systems in place to route these packages within the system?
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Just need that elusive shared friends list. It isn't too tough to do by hand in the meantime
Wait, it sounds like any number of IM programs already implemented.
How is this innovative? Twitter is a victim of its nature. Change its nature, and it's no longer Twitter.
thats some of my friends twitter feeds and could be just their micropublishing feeds if it would go that way. So yes, Noserub is something going in that directions. I can't write on noserub yet though but hey, writing a single user twitter can't be that hard ;)
100% untrue. Check your facts. FedEx has other hubs that could handle the extra traffic in an emergency. And your Houston-via-Memphis comment is untrue as well. Are you saying that if I ship 1,000 boxes within my city, FedEx will waste precious space and fuel on a jet when there are systems in place to route these packages within the system?