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According to Paul Graham (April 2009): >[Twitter] is a new messaging protocol, where you don't specify the recipients. New protocols are rare. Or more precisel
by JBiserkov 10y ago
According to Paul Graham (April 2009):
>[Twitter] is a new messaging protocol, where you don't specify the recipients. New protocols are rare. Or more precisely, new protocols that take off are. There are only a handful of commonly used ones: TCP/IP (the Internet), SMTP (email), HTTP (the web), and so on. So any new protocol is a big deal. But Twitter is a protocol owned by a private company. That's even rarer.
- mparr4 10y agoIt's a shame that, instead of seeing themselves as a protocol, twitter decided they were another "P" word: platform. I think Twitter could have become ubiquitous, like Facebook or email, had it not gone the platform route and started to shut down third party apps. But then, how do you make money as a protocol?