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Re:Why Twitter is a Big Deal (2009) by lmm on Sunday May 26, 2013 @02:45PM (#5772010)
To my mind the fact that including pictures or video is less ad-hoc with Tumblr makes it more of a protocol, not less. Honestly Twitter doesn't feel particularly special to me - Facebook, Google+, even Livejournal feel like they're the same "kind of thing". Heck, at times Youtube behaves the same way. But I never got hugely into twitter, maybe it's different if you're a real fan.
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Re:Why Twitter is a Big Deal (2009) by mehrzad on Monday May 27, 2013 @01:50AM (#5773601)
>To my mind the fact that including pictures or video is less ad-hoc with Tumblr makes it more of a protocol,

I see what you mean, it's like Twitter but customizable to the core - true to any good protocol. What made twitter really a protocol was that so many clients were made for its liberal API.

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