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Does anyone else think that all this head scratching over what is the most trivial of problems is hilarious? Twitter is just another naming service. Instead of
by jamess 18y ago
Does anyone else think that all this head scratching over what is the most trivial of problems is hilarious? Twitter is just another naming service. Instead of addressing someone as foo@foo.com, they're now just @foo. All that's needed to make twitter distributed is a new protocol for name resolution. It could be as simple as GET http://distribtwitter.com/whois?foo http://distribtwitter.com/whois?foo returning <name>http://www.foo.com/mytwitterfeed</name> http://www.foo.com/mytwitterfeed</name>. You could write it in a day as a wordpress plugin.
Then other people could come along and write recursive caching distribtwitter name servers so that they can still twitter at people they've never twittered before when distribtwitter.com is down.
The only conclusion I can draw from this is that web 2.0 rots the mind and turns trivial problems in to seemingly impossible problems.
- tptacek 18y agoElegant though it is, I don't think that idea will work; people who I don't "follow" can "message" me in Twitter by including my name in a posting. That doesn't work if I explicitly have to be polling their server to see anything they say.
- dant 18y agoI'm not sure that unsolicited message scenario will be viable if twitter becomes distributed. How would you stop the spam?
- jamess 18y agoNo, people who you don't follow can ping you saying they've sent you a message. Your software can simply drop them on the floor if you don't care to receive messages from people who you aren't following (AKA people who aren't on your whitelist.) No polling is involved.
- jdroid 18y agoI agree. People are drunk on web 2.0. My name is James too.