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If a service limits how you can access it, and you don't want that: Don't complain or start a petition. Instead, use or build another service.

thirsteh 14y ago
So instead of getting the API limit raised, you should start another Twitter? Really?
- stesch 14y ago
  Seeing how many companies are unhappy with Twitter's new policies, it seems a bit strange that they don't band together and make something different/new.
- bjelkeman-again 14y ago
  We don't need another Twitter. The model where one company owns an information channel like this is "broken". It is the CompuServe of short messages. We need a distributed architecture, so that nobody owns it. Like SMTP... oh wait, spam. Hmmm. I think that there must be an architecture that solves that problem. Getting it adopted though, is a whole different ball game.
- grey-area 14y ago
  Someone's already done that, all you have to do is use it (maybe as well as twitter if you want): https://app.net/ https://app.net/ https://tent.io/ https://tent.io/ Here's why you shouldn't depend on Twitter or other closed platforms long term: http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been
  - mehrzad 14y ago
    Just saying, Tent is great. Good community, great third party developer support, and though for now it's just a Rails app you can run on your server, it's going to be something more abstract like IRC. The co-founders also really know their stuff.
    - Titanous 14y ago
      I'm one of the Tent architects. Thanks for the kind words :) Tent is actually a protocol, so anyone can implement their own server. We don't use Rails, but we do have reference server implementation called tentd that is written in Ruby: https://github.com/tent/tentd https://github.com/tent/tentd
  - bjelkeman-again 14y ago
    Isn't app.net a Twitter clone, i.e not a federalised service, like tent.io seems to be? Twitter could charge me a subscription fee for tokens that I could use on whatever application I wanted. That would remove some of the issues. Twitter makes money, I can use it however I want. But I still think something like tent.io is where we should go.

thirsteh 14y ago

So instead of getting the API limit raised, you should start another Twitter? Really?

stesch 14y ago
Seeing how many companies are unhappy with Twitter's new policies, it seems a bit strange that they don't band together and make something different/new.
bjelkeman-again 14y ago
We don't need another Twitter. The model where one company owns an information channel like this is "broken". It is the CompuServe of short messages. We need a distributed architecture, so that nobody owns it. Like SMTP... oh wait, spam. Hmmm. I think that there must be an architecture that solves that problem. Getting it adopted though, is a whole different ball game.
grey-area 14y ago
Someone's already done that, all you have to do is use it (maybe as well as twitter if you want): https://app.net/ https://app.net/ https://tent.io/ https://tent.io/ Here's why you shouldn't depend on Twitter or other closed platforms long term: http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been
- mehrzad 14y ago
  Just saying, Tent is great. Good community, great third party developer support, and though for now it's just a Rails app you can run on your server, it's going to be something more abstract like IRC. The co-founders also really know their stuff.
  - Titanous 14y ago
    I'm one of the Tent architects. Thanks for the kind words :) Tent is actually a protocol, so anyone can implement their own server. We don't use Rails, but we do have reference server implementation called tentd that is written in Ruby: https://github.com/tent/tentd https://github.com/tent/tentd
- bjelkeman-again 14y ago
  Isn't app.net a Twitter clone, i.e not a federalised service, like tent.io seems to be? Twitter could charge me a subscription fee for tokens that I could use on whatever application I wanted. That would remove some of the issues. Twitter makes money, I can use it however I want. But I still think something like tent.io is where we should go.