Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Five (5) reasons why Twitter does not work for you

Monday, May 19th, 2008
What is Twitter. For me twitter is like a forum 2.0, mailing list, or chat room or even a platform. People can talk, other can listen and talk back. It’s very fun but obviously not for all people. There has been debate whether Twitter is really something worth using time over time.

Here, I’ll share with you 5 reasons why twitter may not work for you.

  1. You talk (broadcast) but never “follow”. D’oh?
  2. You are insisting that other’s businesses are worthless to you. How it is not interesting when you can have direct interaction with people you are admire for their ubergeekness and interesting personality? How it is not fun to follow people visiting startup companies in Israel? Live!
  3. You are not following people you really want to follow. I drop laughingsquid buy I keep Scobleizer, Techcrunch, marshallk, and add om. I also have several local interesting people like fajarjasmin, salsabeela, budip, ivanlanin, and others who tweets quite a lot.
  4. You give up easily on filtering noise. Yes, twitter has noises. It’s obvious, but it has some signal as well. You need to have a strategy to filter the noise or even better, turn the noise into some signal. Quotably.com is a good site where you can turn noise into a full of signal conversation.
  5. You are following people but never replies. You’re not a bot are you?

Do you have any reason not it the list? Why not sharing it? ;)

Ideas: I can haz Twitter replaced by IRC plz?

Friday, May 16th, 2008

This is yet another bath time ideas. How can we replace Twitter with something that is not rocket science? I think we can simulate Twitter using IRC. And these are how:

  • Each user will be given their own room. So, if I’m neofreko then I’ll have #neofreko
  • Twitter bot join every user room
  • Who following who will be kept in a dedicated database
  • Each time user post a message in his (or any) room, twitter bot will relay this message to other user room based on the who-following-who database
  • User can leave their room so they may have been replaced by a bot as well. We may want to keep an alias table for user-bot and real user
  • This user-bot will “provide” web-based UI so user is not required to join the room but, still, can access their room from external world. Accessing here may mean: views archive, views replies, and sends messages
  • Twitter bot can keep all recent messages to build the public timeline

So, now we have

  • Other can see my twitter page by visiting my room, or accessing the web-based UI.
  • At any given time there’ll be at least two user instance in any given room, ie: user-bot and twitter-bot
  • No, the room won’t be available on public. Instead it’s only available in twitter LAN(d). Thus we can prevent evil bot from joining.

And then we must consider

  • Netsplit issue. IRC wizard please confirm this: will this problem gone is all user coming from localhost?
  • Security. Whether this IRC is vulnerable

Now, who want to fund me?! ;)