> Maybe having a distributed network of sorta timely servers wouldn't be such a bad thing. I seem to remember debates happening fairly rapidly on USENET. I bel

> Maybe having a distributed network of sorta timely servers wouldn't be such a bad thing. I seem to remember debates happening fairly rapidly on USENET. I believe this is what twitter does. At least that is the impression I have as a user. Having 'watched' a number of live events on twitter I tend to get a floods of 10-30 tweets at a time all in the same language. I presume this means there is a delay related to geographic servers packing up multiple tweet for replication.