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Who would host the servers though? A standards organization? I doubt they could afford it. That, or it will be like email, where everyone has @example.com ap
by rottendevice 16y ago
Who would host the servers though? A standards organization? I doubt they could afford it.
That, or it will be like email, where everyone has @example.com appended to their username.
Neither situation strikes me as desirable.
- aheilbut 16y agoI think it will be a lot like email - what is undesirable about appending a domain? That's how the internet works.
- alextgordon 16y agoYou mean, with all the spam?
- wmf 16y agoFortunately tweeting has the concept/expectation of following (whitelisting) and email doesn't.
- alextgordon 16y agoOnly if you've protected your profile/using private messages. I regularly get @replied by people who I don't follow, and I don't particularly want to lose those messages, so it's probably not a realistic way of stopping spam (although it would certainly be effective).
- chunkbot 16y agoIn the future, it's quite likely that a standards organization could afford it. Processor speed, disk capacity, network bandwidth, and available software are all growing much more rapidly than online populations. In some years' time I might be able to run an operation like Google, Facebook, or Twitter from my bedroom.
- eru 16y agoThe current Google perhaps, but not the Google of the future.
- chunkbot 16y agoI'm not sure I want the Google of the future.
- qq66 16y agoThere are theoretical lower bounds on the amount of heat generated by the kind of information processing that Google does, and this heat needs to come from energy sources, which are growing more scarce as software/bandwidth/disk capacity/CPU speed grows. Google is the largest non-manufacturing electricity buyer in the world and would never fit in any bedroom :)
- bluelu 16y ago1000 tweets (maybe with metadata 1 KB) are juts 100 KB/s traffic (if compressed). You could stream this from one of the smaller ec2 instances.