Comments on: Should a free RSS Cloud replace Twitter? https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/should-a-free-rss-cloud-replace-twitter/2009/08/18 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:29:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Sam Rose https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/should-a-free-rss-cloud-replace-twitter/2009/08/18/comment-page-1#comment-417386 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:29:48 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=4458#comment-417386 I think you could replace “Should a free” with “When will a” because this is so possible and plausible that it is really bound to happen.

Recent outages http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/amateur-hour-over-at-twitter/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/06/serious-twitter-outage-ongoing/ show that a monolithic hard wired object oriented programmed-application is close to unsustainable at larger scales (although a huge part of the problem is the non-robustness of their hosting)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconica showed that it was possible to clone the monolithic app that is twitter. But, the next step really is spawning really lean network services that broadcast in local network talking ways.

A service like twitter could then just concentrate on tracking in those networks, instead of also doing the lifting of routing the messages, etc, which is better done on local network scales.

This doesn’t just apply to microblogging, but really to potentially all data in local networks, and from various services. This is the direction things are going in

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