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Well, SSH was controlled by a single company at first... But maybe calling Twitter a "internet protocol" is a bit of a stretch, even in purely technological te

by borism 17y ago

Well, SSH was controlled by a single company at first... But maybe calling Twitter a "internet protocol" is a bit of a stretch, even in purely technological terms? Human communication protocol, maybe... just to paraphrase Stephen Colbert: "The protocol we didn't know we needed until we had it"?

nostrademons 17y ago
A lot of Twitter traffic is machines now. Actually, this is making it a little hard for humans, since there are so many spammers/pornbots. And there're are a bunch of examples of protocols that were initially controlled by single companies. AIM gave us Oscar and TOC. Microsoft gave us SMB. Kazaa gave us FastTrack.
- coliveira 17y ago
  The difference however is that SMB, for example, was implemented by Microsoft but can run on any machine. Twitter is tied to twitter machines.