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Twitter is not a public utility. If you want to put your namespace in the hands of a private company that offers their service for free, then by all means use t
by riffic 14y ago
Twitter is not a public utility. If you want to put your namespace in the hands of a private company that offers their service for free, then by all means use them.
Organizations that want to retain control of their own namespace should host an OStatus compliant service on their own infrastructure.
- phillmv 14y agoActually, between trademark law and libel laws that's not strictly true.
- darkarmani 14y agoIf you want to take to that level of absurdity, we should all be hosting our own DNS systems, so we aren't dependent on other entities. With sufficient backlash at twitter, we can reduce the possibility of this happening.
- riffic 14y agoDNS is distributed. There's only one Twitter.com See the problem in that? Furthermore, there isn't just one DNS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root