On: New Twitter, JTV RFSes; Winter 2010 deadline pushed back 2 days

[ryanwaggoner]

Twitter is not a protocol, any more than Windows or Myspace or Symbian are protocols. Twitter is a proprietary platform under the control of a single company, and treating it as a protocol is dangerous to both companies and their users.

[gord → ryanwaggoner]

both agree and not..

The internet was pretty closed when DARPA owned it and so TCP was proprietary. Fortunately it became ubiquitous, was written up in an RFC and we can all inter-operate now.

Calling it a 'protocol' is useful.

[davepeck → gord]

Related: the Birds of a FETHR slide deck and audio.

http://brdfdr.com/pres/

A case for distributed microblogging, and a protocol to match.

[dagw → davepeck]

Distributed blogging you say. Sounds like this newfangled NNTP protocol I just read about might be just the thing. Maybe I could build a startup around that

[davepeck → dagw]

I think you should read it more carefully. It has nothing to do with NNTP. (Also: sarcasm of this stripe hardly contributes to quality discussion.)

[axod → gord]

Twitter as a protocol is pretty stupid. It's trivial. Also, as a messaging protocol, it sucks. 140 characters? :/

There's far better more widely used communication protocols out there, and new ones being made all the time. Difference is Twitter has a fantastic hype machine.