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I don't know about this. I presume you mean she's using something like Google Talk, built on XMPP? While that's true, I'm not sure it has the same requirements.
by kolektiv 16y ago
I don't know about this. I presume you mean she's using something like Google Talk, built on XMPP? While that's true, I'm not sure it has the same requirements. Twitter works because there's no fragmentation - everyone you care about is in one place. A system of loosely federated systems would lose a lot of the "authoritative source" value it seems. Of course, I could be wrong here, that's only an initial reaction, so feel free to correct me!
(I presume on Google Talk it's only commonly possible to speak to other people on Google Talk? I presume you could change the server config or set up your own XMPP servers, etc, but does anyone?)
- shazow 16y agoNo, you can chat with people across servers, thus the federation. Somebody using jabber.org can talk to somebody using gmail.com. There are even bridge transports to let jabber users talk to ICQ users and Facebook users. It's quite extensible. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabber
- kolektiv 16y agoHmmm, thanks for the information on that, it makes sense :) It still seems like some of the authoritative aspects of Twitter which provide value would be lost, but I am grateful for the clarification on that.