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By: sem

sem — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:37:18 +0000

My biggest issue with Twitter is that people I have unfollowed previously, show up again randomly. I do not want stalkers, I don’t know how this happened but the Twitter associates won’t help me.

By: Remote Access Software

Remote Access Software — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:03:22 +0000

What I would love to see for these posts would be a recap at the end that gives the top 3 points. Same with some of the replies. My two cents: twitter is still evolving. That does not mean it’s about to be overtaken by something else.

By: Ken Sheppardson

Ken Sheppardson — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:20:31 +0000

Just came across this… better late than never, I suppose. What we’re doing with Identispy–a service built to provide “track” for Identica and any other Laconica site that wants to participate–is providing an HTTP API to post messages to the service. It’s not that hard to simply configure a Laconica instance to push your site’s full public XMPP feed to Identispy, but for those admins who don’t want to deal with creating an XMPP account or rely on someone else to administer an XMPP server there’s a module distributed with Laconica to use HTTP. You ask us for an API key, add two lines to your config file, fire up the HTTP module, and all messages on your system are posted to Identispy as an Atom payload in an HTTP POST request.

I know the terms “GET” and “POST” have gotten pretty muddled over the years, but submitting an message/document via POST (in this case an Atom message) is pretty common usage.

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By: Thomas Whitney

Thomas Whitney — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:27:38 +0000

I use Twitter AND Friend Feed, with better results from Twitter at the moment. My question is mainly about digital security, which I did not hear mention here. How much time and energy are these sites putting into keeping up with the hacking trends. I feel like I need to know the more I get into this.

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By: greg

greg — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:42:38 +0000

Makes me think of In Front of Your Noses’ post last Friday: “Should I kill myself or read another Twitter message?”: Camus’ question for the social media generation (http://escherman.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/should-i-kill-myself-or-read-another-twitter-message-camus-question-for-the-social-media-generation/)

I think I’m going for the former this time.

By: Programmer Helper

Programmer Helper — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:14:41 +0000

I’ve cut way back on the number of people I’m following, the number of people I follow, and my overall usage because at least when Twitter was down I knew it was down, with these soft failures I can’t trust it at all.

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By: Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:04:15 +0000

The bearhug is alive and well. And thanks to Bob for the expertise. I doubt the XMPP/HTTP issue is in the least relevant or important versus the overriding business issues.

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:31:03 +0000

I think that this shows all of us that there will be a large competitor to Twitter within the next year or two and just like there was Live Journal and then MySpace and most recently Facebook evolution in this space will be telling

By: Chris Heath

Chris Heath — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:07:09 +0000

yeah bob … you tell ‘em

and steve: so much for the bearhug eh?

By: Bob Wyman

Bob Wyman — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:14:04 +0000

No argument that XMPP is inherently less efficient than an HTTP Post implementation is sustainable. In both cases, you have an initial chunk of data that establishes the connection followed by a stream of data.

It is certainly the case that open source XMPP servers are built to handle the specific case of using XMPP for instant messaging and thus are not tuned well for the “firehose” application, however, building a trivial XMPP server, suitable for “firehose” publishing, is something that shouldn’t take a good engineer with TCP/IP network experience more than a day or two. The resulting server would be more efficient than using any of the existing HTTP servers since they are designed for a different use pattern.

My comments above are based on experience, not speculation. Five years ago, at PubSub.com, when building a system virtually identical to what Twitter is attempting to build today, we did as suggested above and built our own simple XMPP server for “firehose” feeds that published streams containing millions of blog entries each day.

There is nothing in XMPP that makes it unsuitable for this application.

bob wyman

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By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:19:46 +0000

this post implies that twitter have friendfeed envy in some way.

You also failed to mention twitter is not the only startup to with XMPP, gnip has the same problems and now post xml to 3rd party sites.

Its very effective and can deal with a heavy load and also most webservers can handle high loads.

Friendfeed is a great service but its not twitter.

I would say friendfeed should invest some time in their UI over pandering to tech bloggers feature wish lists.

twitter is easy to understand for the mainstream friendfeed is not in its current form.

By: laura

laura — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:04:12 +0000

translate, sorry :)

By: laura

laura — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:03:41 +0000

I agree, I am not an ubergeek but the story is really hard to follow.
Can anyone tranlate please into normal speak……..
thank you

By: Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:18:41 +0000

Not sure either, but several third parties have described how they use what they call HTTP Post to replace XMPP on the Identica/Laconica platform. @kshep on Twitter and/or Identi.ca for more.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:12:25 +0000

I’m not sure what HTTP Post has to do with twitter providing a stream of data via HTTP. It would be most efficient as a GET request, send some headers, client gets a confirmation back that it has connected also via HTTP headers, and the stream just starts being sent.