As a Free Range Customer, I’m following Uncle Dave’s lead and starting up at Identi.ca. Follow me there as dsearls, same as my Twitter handle. We’ll see how it goes.
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July 2, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Dave Winer
Subscribed.
I’m http://identi.ca/dave
July 3, 2008 at 1:23 am
Mike Warot
I’m glad to see the ball rolling. I’m still interested in solving the core problem of scaling of a tweeting system. I think that a pair of machines (for reliability) should be able to handle all of the core messaging for Twitter or any subsequent clones.
Do you think anyone would use such a system if it were developed?
July 3, 2008 at 3:16 am
Thejesh GN
Followed aka Subscribed
I am http://identi.ca/thej