Open Source Twitter
After seeing a recent group on Facebook looking to develop a community funding movement for Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21624136569 I was inspired to create a similar group calling for the Open Sourcing of the Twitter platform (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18865061654). The idea being that Twitter will become stabler much faster if the base platform is open sourced rather than built with a limited paid group (no matter how much money is raised.)
What does Twitter stand to gain? A stable platform, continued dominance in the space, and the ability to focus on $$ making aspects much faster -- for example corporate implementation and closed networks.
This is a similar concept to a recent open source distributed microblogging platform movement that Joe Cascio (@joec0914) has been leading the charge on. Again, the idea is that a community supported and built open source project focussed on the platform level would be more adaptable and scaleable.
It would be great to see either of these projects take off, because the twitter concept is great, and because I'd love to see twitter succeed and don't think that they need a proprietary base platform to do so.
What does Twitter stand to gain? A stable platform, continued dominance in the space, and the ability to focus on $$ making aspects much faster -- for example corporate implementation and closed networks.
This is a similar concept to a recent open source distributed microblogging platform movement that Joe Cascio (@joec0914) has been leading the charge on. Again, the idea is that a community supported and built open source project focussed on the platform level would be more adaptable and scaleable.
It would be great to see either of these projects take off, because the twitter concept is great, and because I'd love to see twitter succeed and don't think that they need a proprietary base platform to do so.
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