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Open a wordpress blog. (or any other blog service) Write short posts (less than 500 chars) Use your reader of choice (Google Reader is the best) There you ha

Open a wordpress blog. (or any other blog service) Write short posts (less than 500 chars) Use your reader of choice (Google Reader is the best) There you have it, a microblogging network. PS. use Atom feeds for a better experience.

TweedHeads 17y ago
If I was Matt Mullenweg I would be having a meeting right now to implement Wordpress Lite ASAP. That, my friends, is the twitter killer. With all the themes, plugins, widgets and all the ecosystem. At the same time, Google should be updating their Reader with an Instant Update feature for selected feeds. I know Wave will have some of this, but why wait?
- idlewords 17y ago
  I think Matt Mullenweg is in the meeting where they're discussing remote Wordpress admin exploits right now.
  - photomatt 17y ago
    :)
- mbrubeck 17y ago
  The P2 theme is Wordpress's best answer to Twitter. It's pretty cool: http://ma.tt/2009/05/how-p2-changed-automattic/ http://ma.tt/2009/05/how-p2-changed-automattic/ Brad Fitzpatrick (LiveJournal founder) is at Google working on PubSubHubbub, which is a distributed push system for RSS. The Google Reader team is already experimenting with it (as a provider currently, not a consumer): http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009/08/pubsubhubbub-support-for-reader-shared.html http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009/08/pubsubhubbub-suppor...
  - TweedHeads 17y ago
    P2 is the answer. I know beauty when I see it.
    - TweedHeads 17y ago
      Now, implement collapse/expand comments and new comment notifiers (red bubble/white number) and you have a twitter, friendfeed and facebook killer.
  - ams1 17y ago
    There's also already a WP PubSubHubBub plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pubsubhubbub/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pubsubhubbub/
andygeers 17y ago
I can't help but feel that this idea misses the point of why Twitter was so successful - far more than the notion of convincing all those millions of users to start their own blogs and use Google Reader. The sheer simplicity of it all lowers the barriers to entry, something that asking people to start a wordpress blog or whatever else would never capture.
- taylorheffernan 17y ago
  That really isn't what I was trying to convey. The idea was that Twitter needs to be decentralized and we need services to do that. Like any open alternative to something popular and closed, it will take time to get going, but this can be just as user friendly as Twitter - there is just the option for people to host it themselves, essentially

TweedHeads 17y ago

If I was Matt Mullenweg I would be having a meeting right now to implement Wordpress Lite ASAP. That, my friends, is the twitter killer. With all the themes, plugins, widgets and all the ecosystem. At the same time, Google should be updating their Reader with an Instant Update feature for selected feeds. I know Wave will have some of this, but why wait?

idlewords 17y ago
I think Matt Mullenweg is in the meeting where they're discussing remote Wordpress admin exploits right now.
- photomatt 17y ago
  :)
mbrubeck 17y ago
The P2 theme is Wordpress's best answer to Twitter. It's pretty cool: http://ma.tt/2009/05/how-p2-changed-automattic/ http://ma.tt/2009/05/how-p2-changed-automattic/ Brad Fitzpatrick (LiveJournal founder) is at Google working on PubSubHubbub, which is a distributed push system for RSS. The Google Reader team is already experimenting with it (as a provider currently, not a consumer): http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009/08/pubsubhubbub-support-for-reader-shared.html http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009/08/pubsubhubbub-suppor...
- TweedHeads 17y ago
  P2 is the answer. I know beauty when I see it.
  - TweedHeads 17y ago
    Now, implement collapse/expand comments and new comment notifiers (red bubble/white number) and you have a twitter, friendfeed and facebook killer.
- ams1 17y ago
  There's also already a WP PubSubHubBub plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pubsubhubbub/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pubsubhubbub/

andygeers 17y ago

I can't help but feel that this idea misses the point of why Twitter was so successful - far more than the notion of convincing all those millions of users to start their own blogs and use Google Reader. The sheer simplicity of it all lowers the barriers to entry, something that asking people to start a wordpress blog or whatever else would never capture.

taylorheffernan 17y ago
That really isn't what I was trying to convey. The idea was that Twitter needs to be decentralized and we need services to do that. Like any open alternative to something popular and closed, it will take time to get going, but this can be just as user friendly as Twitter - there is just the option for people to host it themselves, essentially