TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and copyright infringement

Re:TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and co... by dec0dedab0de on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:16AM (#16165864)

does anyone remember the name of the alternate microblogging platform leo laporte was using when this first came up ~ 10 years ago? I remember one episode he just gave in and used twitter.

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Re:TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and co... by memsom on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @03:11AM (#16166302)

All of them. He flirted with them all. Jaiku, Identi.ca, App.net, etc. He was always trying to find an alternative. I've been listening on and off to him since my first iPod, so over 10 years. As each new one came out he jumped on it. He was the same with Android/iOS and Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

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Re:TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and co... by MarkSweep on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:24AM (#16165894)

Was it Pownce?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce

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Re:TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and co... by tpowell on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:36AM (#16166163)

I think it was Pownce, as Kevin Rose co-founded it and he was associated with Tech TV all the way back to 2002 (I think). Blast from the past...

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Re:TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and co... by itsoggy on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:27AM (#16165906)

https://identi.ca/

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Re:TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and co... by deerpig on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @09:34AM (#16168141)

He really pushed identi.ca, there was a nice community there back in the day. It became a bit of a refuge from the noise on twitter. I had my identi.ca account in my sig file up until a couple of years ago. But I have largely lost interest in any of the social media platforms though I use twitter from time to time.

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Re:TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and co... by Notre1 on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @09:14AM (#16168004)

I think he tried a few, but the one that I remember him saying that he liked the most was Plurk.

This page shows the UI, at the time, pretty well: https://readwrite.com/2008/06/04/plurk_unique_or_just_anothe...

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Re:TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and co... by jpkeisala on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:02AM (#16166977)

Jaiku. It was bought by Google and disappeared because of Google+

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Re:TWiT is suing Twitter, alleging breach of contract and co... by mikeflynn on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:24AM (#16165893)

Jaiku or Pownce?

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