Re:Microblogging has become too important for Twitter to rul...
by swombat on Friday August 14, 2009 @07:38AM
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It won't be hard to build competitors to Twitter—systems that do as much as it does but whose decentralized design ensures that they're not a single point of failure.
For a given, plucked-from-thin-air definition of "hard", no, it's not hard.
In the real world, yes, it's hard.
I don't see why the fact that people rely on Twitter should mean that they need to be broken up or opened up or any such thing.
For a given, plucked-from-thin-air definition of "hard", no, it's not hard.
In the real world, yes, it's hard.
I don't see why the fact that people rely on Twitter should mean that they need to be broken up or opened up or any such thing.