socialmedian: Once again, Twitter’s death is laid out. Once again, users will fail to notice

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Once again, Twitter’s death is laid out. Once again, users will fail to notice

Source: VentureBeat

Oct 25, 2008

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In a post on its developer blog a couple days ago, Twitter API lead developer Alex Payne outlined what the service is doing with the vast amount of data it’s receiving everyday. Payne discussed the service’s use of application programming interfaces (APIs), feeds and pinging services to give third parties and users the information they want from Twitter. He also revealed that Twitter is now staffing a project (including Payne himself) to come up with a best way to handle the distribution of the so-called “firehose” (that is all of Twitter’s unprotected updates). Apparently, this wasn’t enough for blogger Dave Winer.

Winer, who has been at the forefront on a number of technologies including Real Simple Syndication (RSS) and blogging over the past couple decades, thinks Twitter needs to do more, lest it become the next Netscape. Netscape was the first major web browser in the 1990s but faded into obscurity and eventually its demise as Microsoft took over the market with its Internet Explorer browser. Winer sees the same thing happening to Twitter, a big Internet

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Comments (2)

Gojigirl,

Oct 26, 2008

Long Live "Twitter"! The world is full of useless information....until you need it and/or can use it:-)

Joannedevault,

Oct 28, 2008

this post makes me want to twitter. hmmm... should i twitter from my cell phone? or through my facebook profile or directly from the site? oh twitter...