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I think a twitter-decentralized-blockchain could solve this?
by rasengan 11y ago
I think a twitter-decentralized-blockchain could solve this?
- jimktrains2 11y agoWhich would also provide a signing key for messages as well.
- toyg 11y agoCheck out twister, it's exactly that: a blockchain-backed twitter, where direct messages are handled through DHT. It is very promising, although it had its birth pains: decentraluzation inevitably brings spammers and squatters...
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- pjc50 11y agoDoesn't that require everyone to keep a full copy of the firehose, including all the spam?
- EGreg 11y agoWhy do you need global search? Just have append-only merkle trees with vector clocks.
- patrickaljord 11y ago> Why do you need global search? You must not be a twitter power user, global search is one of its most powerful feature. You can know what's happening anywhere in the world about any topic in real time.
- dublinben 11y agoIf that feature is so important to that small subset of users, shouldn't they be willing to pay for it?
- patrickaljord 11y agoGood luck competing with Twitter. Also, it's not just friends, it's trending topics, suggestions or even ads which are super useful for businesses.
- patrickaljord 11y agoBlockchain makes everyone store a copy of the whole twitterverse on their hard drive. In 2013, Twitter said they were storing 22 megs/second, that's 57 terabytes/month. It may have doubled since then. http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-twitter-uses-to-deal-with-150m-active-users.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-tw...
- StreamBright 11y agoCouldn't we store only the hashes or other ids in blockchain and split up the content to smaller chunks storing it in separate blockchains?