Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day and GROWING.

Re:Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day and GROWING. by fseek on Monday February 22, 2010 @04:28PM (#1143778)

I find it shocking that so many people rely on a single (centralized) source for their communication. The internet was built to be de-centralized (see how DNS, email, tcp/ip works), but now we are moving to a centralized, unreliable means of communication..

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Re:Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day and GROWING. by stingraycharles on Monday February 22, 2010 @04:35PM (#1143791)

Haven't we been doing that for ages with things like MSN/AOL messenger? Isn't this just an extra means of communication, instead of a replacement as you're suggesting?

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Re:Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day and GROWING. by dlsspy on Monday February 22, 2010 @08:09PM (#1144283)

Before there was ICQ, AIM, YIM, and AOL instant messenger, there was talk, zephyr and other distributed instant message systems that worked just fine over the internet.

After, there's XMPP.

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Re:Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day and GROWING. by steveklabnik on Monday February 22, 2010 @04:49PM (#1143823)

Most people have no idea that DNS, email, or tcp/ip are decentralized (or even exist).

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Re:Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day and GROWING. by sewerhorse on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @04:37AM (#1145074)

Shocking, really? The world will not fall apart if I'm not able to see Robert Scoble's foursquare check-ins any longer.

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Re:Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day and GROWING. by bobbyi on Monday February 22, 2010 @05:08PM (#1143875)

All of the posts on twitter don't come from some single source. There are millions of people posting things.

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Re:Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day and GROWING. by afterz on Monday February 22, 2010 @05:22PM (#1143916)

But there is a single company in charge of the service... if that company disappears or the company servers shut off, your messages will disappear (just as it happens when twitter shuts off).

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Re:Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day and GROWING. by fizx on Monday February 22, 2010 @05:21PM (#1143913)

Don't worry, it will get federated pretty soon. Remember when AOL owned instant messaging?

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Re:Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day and GROWING. by staunch on Monday February 22, 2010 @05:25PM (#1143923)

I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but IM is about as far from distributed as it gets. There are only 3-4 big players in a given country, on the high side. Better than Twitter maybe, but just barely.

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