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The world is marching on without Twitter. TodaysMama http://is.gd/pkc1 has joined the ranks of identi.ca, twitarmy, and hundreds of other Open MicroBlog Standard microblogging platforms that are distributed and easily interact with each other. Having their own microblogging server is the only solution that allows government to embrace microblogging under current laws. The time has come twitter.... Open the silo.

thanks for the info. I'll pass it along to the developers. – exador23, on August 29, 2008 19:19

Prepending identica: or twitarmy: (leolaporte's laconica site which federates with identica) is a bridge user's ~option~. You can choose no prepend, in which case twitter will deal with @replies according to user defaults.

Many people using the bridge prefer the prepend because...

a) we want to make it clear where "home" is, unlike the many twitter users who ping or xpost to identica but ignore attempts at replying to them there.

b) twitter doesn't currently allow "from identica" as part of the post a la "from twhirl" etc.

& perhaps most importantly...

c) we've discovered that seeing @replies is a ~huge~ advantage when it comes to discovering interesting people, and more importantly becoming a part of interesting conversations in progress. Many key conversations about implementation of features like IM, track, etc very quickly involve the people who have brilliant things to contribute. Often, when founder @evan replies to someone's question about identica, you can check out the "in reply to" link and realize that he's answered a question you had. it's an invaluable tool which you miss out on if you don't see @ replies regardless of following status.

Yet the bottom line is this: the identica bridges were implemented by independent developers to meet the desire of users to ease their transition to an open & federated microblogging system by keeping those in their social graph who choose to stay on twitter updated on their lives. If twitter ever decides to adopt an open microblogging format, such bridges would become unnecessary and communication will be more seamless.

You too could come to identi.ca and bridge to twitter to keep your friends up to date. the choice to prepend or not is yours, as is the choice to follow someone who does prepend.

peace,
http://identi.ca/exador23

I figured out a solution. I'm working on un-following all but 20 people so I can actually get their updates. decisions. decisions...

well, very sorry indeed then. I'd gladly delete it if I could. Have a nice day. (and for the record - I'm just a normal joe user) – exador23, on July 08, 2008 22:36

not meant to be spam meg. sorry if I offended. If anything, competition may help the situation for all the u-blog users, including twitter. I've tried being as helpful as I could on various twitter issues here (feel free to check my dashboard). The silence from the TWORG has tried my patience much more than the problems with their service. Now I'm happy. I'm still rooting for their success. & hoping users will finally getsatisfaction - or at the very least get an answer to the very serious questions posed here. – exador23, on July 08, 2008 21:57

I feel for you guys. So glad that I'm almost exclusively here: http://identi.ca/exador23 or add /all (remember "with others"?) or /replies

If I have a problem I can @evan who actually uses identica to answer it's version of "What are you doing?" http://identi.ca/evan really explore the difference, it's ok, you can go hundreds of pages back in time.

go ahead check it out. But, please, bring an attitude of patience & tolerance with you. It's a do-ocracy. If you can't fix the issue yourself, realize none of the open source code community is being paid to satisfy you, and your feature request for the laconi.ca source might not be a priority at the moment. But if it's important to enough people & coders, it will eventually come on line.

too bad 12 employees are "not listening and not participating" This is a still a problem for our non-profit. nearly 10 years of important transactions and contacts lost. We're looking into other service providers.

Now, if only I had a contact in the Chinese government. maybe we could get access to our data through them ;-)

too bad 12 employees are "not listening and not participating" This is a still a problem for our non-profit. nearly 10 years of important transactions and contacts lost. We're looking into other service providers.

Now, if only I had a contact in the Chinese government. maybe we could get access to our data through them ;-)

I may have mis-understood the original question. It seemed (perhaps only in my mind) like they were looking for a way to automatically tweet the requests they were receiving via e-mail. Sorry if I misunderstood. – exador23, on June 14, 2008 01:33

So if twitter has a way to detect the follow whores, why doesn't that trip a captcha or something to stop or slow their bot activity instead of just letting them follow without our knowledge?????

I don't get it. When did greasing the skids for spammers become a solution?