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Re: Dembot - How To Keep Twitter from Crashing in a Crisis

cheeky_geeky — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:07:44 -0000

Thanks Andrew, completely agree. You inspired me to write this (which I've been feeling for a while) this morning. http://markdrapeau.posterou...

Re: Dembot - How To Keep Twitter from Crashing in a Crisis

John Thomas — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:50:15 -0000

yep

Re: Dembot - How To Keep Twitter from Crashing in a Crisis

Jason Pedley — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:12:29 -0000

"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?

Re: Dembot - How To Keep Twitter from Crashing in a Crisis

Roger Penguino — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:20:12 -0000

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.

Re: Dembot - How To Keep Twitter from Crashing in a Crisis

Oliver Thylmann — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:08:05 -0000

http://id.thylmann.net/othy...

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 ;)

Re: Dembot - How To Keep Twitter from Crashing in a Crisis

Scott — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:35:21 -0000

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.

Re: Dembot - How To Keep Twitter from Crashing in a Crisis

WTL — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:33:40 -0000

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.

Re: Dembot - How To Keep Twitter from Crashing in a Crisis

Patrick Veverka — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:36:42 -0000

Using FriendFeed, I autopost to Facebook. It would be great if Twitter supported decentralization, though. Lately, their service has been pretty spotty.

Re: Dembot - How To Keep Twitter from Crashing in a Crisis

Andrew Badera — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:41:47 -0000

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.

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jamiew — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:28:56 -0000

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