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I feel like making a service where people can post public 140 character messages, and other people can follow them, and thats the entire app, and call it twitte
by martin_bech 9y ago
I feel like making a service where people can post public 140 character messages, and other people can follow them, and thats the entire app, and call it twitter classic.
- pjc50 9y agoSpam?
- lin_lin 9y agoHow's it spam? I select people/accounts I want to follow, and tweets from them show up in chronological order in my timeline. Sounds brilliant, someone should get on that!
- pjc50 9y agoSo no @ and no #, ie no way to discover what people you're not following are talking about unless linked by someone you do follow?
- ashark 9y ago# — sure, allow it. If you ask for all the comments that mention a hashtag, you're requesting a drink from the firehose, and you should get it. @ — maybe allow it, but only for users who mutually follow one another.
- ashark 9y agoHm. Spin it up under a non-profit, create or build upon an open protocol. Appeal to the folks who think the Internet would be better off with something twitter-like but as kind-of a public service, and more open. If you do allow responses/conversations, allow it only between users who follow one another. But maybe just don't allow it at all. [EDIT] actually, if anyone's thinking about doing this and wants to chat... email's in my profile.