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> It's accessible on your computer, your phone, even your TV if you try hard enough. Note the irony of this comment existing in a post about the service not be
by MatthewPhillips 14y ago
> It's accessible on your computer, your phone, even your TV if you try hard enough.
Note the irony of this comment existing in a post about the service not being accessible, anywhere. Which wouldn't be the case had it been a protocol.
- untog 14y agoA massively decentralised protocol would not exactly be the model of reliability, either. I'm not even sure how that could possibly work in a service like Twitter.
- mkr-hn 14y agoIt would probably work like an IRC network. A network might involve hundreds of servers, but you only notice which server another person is using when there's a netsplit. Split users can reconnect using another server and rejoin the channel with only a slight interruption. An IRC-styled Twitter would need some sort of synchronization service to handle twitsplits.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoHas email ever been down, like, everywhere?
- untog 14y agoIf you think of it like e-mail, who runs the equivalent of the e-mail servers? Your ISP?