Comments on: Game Over. Twitter Wins.

By: busy

busy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:29:50 +0000

@cheesy – You do remember Friendster don’t you? The one that everyone used to use before Myspace got popular?

By: voittos

voittos — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:43:31 +0000

Josh Catone, you should ask Evan for his Rails implementation of the http://openmicroblogging.org protocol — he mentioned it was somewhat complete when I talked to him in San Francisco on Friday, and he was thinking of handing it over to some energetic Ruby programmers.

For those of you not paying attention to the world of Microblogging, Josh Catone and Louis Gray have taken it upon themselves this week to try to stop the Open Microblogging train, but it has left the station. Many thousands of Microbloggers all over the world are cross-subscribing and browsing profiles between sites.

Josh and Louis are hoping you won’t notice that their analysis of Microblogging traffic does not account for the fact that servers are popping up like wildfire. Try searching for “Laconica” on Twitter.

It’s a lot of fun and you can put it on your own site in about 5 minutes and start your own Microblogging network. Enjoy!

http://laconi.ca
http://openmicroblogger.org (now has pretty URLs!)

— Brian

By: cheesy

cheesy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:27:27 +0000

Arrington is right, the fact everyone uses it means it’s going to be the defaqto, and now they’ve sorted out reliability at long last, I don’t see anyone taking them over on their own turf. Something better could come along, for sure. But look at the early mySpace days – noone would say it was pretty, or even worked that well, but everyone used it, so everyone else had to.

And I think the comment above is just lazy quite frankly, I think it does scale, we’re seeing that right now.

By: drew

drew — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:43:51 +0000

Twitter’s downtime has been less coz its former die-hard users had already left.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:27:37 +0000

Tiwtter doesn’t scale. Game over.