Open Twitter

decentralized Twitter - treating it like a new Open Standards protocol for an EcoSystem

• does OpenMicroBlogging API do it?

I tend to think about Open Twitter like a public Interest Graph, vs Open Social Networking Model as having more of a focus on selective sharing to different groups of people.

• this is very sloppy in a number of ways
  • ignores possible desired for Privacy from BigWorld (see link below)
  • ignores Group Forming process desire
• nudges me toward trying to stick as close as possible to RSS

Sept'2014: https://thoughtstreams.io/joeld/microblogging-with-rss

why

• Privacy 2012-03-12-PrivacyAndFederationLinksToday

• eliminate Scalability/Single Point Of Failure concerns (Fail Whale)

• avoid having it get broken by bad behavior

• avoid Terms Of Service issues? http://twitter.com/tos

• greater potential to have all your archives available - 2010-07-23-ArchivingMyTweets

• easier potential for building custom/ized tools on top of the stream, without worrying that Twitter will cut you off

Features, in order of importance to me - context: Open Twitter - 2007-03-29-OpenSourceTwitter

• post via web

• manage who I follow (like FOAF, look up in Identity Hub)

  • or maybe this goes in your RssAggregator/Universal Inbox

• read fresh/new/recent posts (in batch) from people I follow

  • directly via web

  • via RSS (hmm, every user could have his own feed at a different place, and you just aggregate them in your RssAggregator)

    • Mar'2012: Dave Winer made a MicroBlogging NameSpace in RSS-v2.
    • Oct'2013: Dave Winer notes: you could bootstrap something simple with just RSS. But notification has to be fast. I know some people who are working on that, maybe. Let's see.

• Like Button (Re Tweet), etc.

  • Discussion Forum integration - separate service, or integrated/inherent? Raises the Real Time need?
    • or try to do Blog Thread via Two Way Links like WebMention (per IndieWeb folks)
  • 2011-02-23-TwitterChat

• support for more than 140 characters? HTML?

• post via Instant Messaging, SMS (or other Mobile Fat Client)

• read via Instant Messaging, SMS - personally, I don't do this, but I expect others find it a requirements

Some candidates

• RSS, RssCloud, PubSubHubBub
• Status Net
• ESME