tobybot's dashboard

looks fixed now

I replied earlier, but now that I've read the replies posted by Biz and others, I'm kind of up on the fence about this. I know from personal experience that the decision to moderate or be hands off can be a tough one to make; in any case, I'm glad that they're reviewing the TOS. If the idea is to be a raw content delivery service, their terms and policies should make that totally clear.

Also, now that I've seen this anonymous twittering page, I can really see how it was a tough issue to deal with; certainly not a clear-cut case one way or the other.

Anyway, I strongly suspect that the (eventual) future of Twitter will see the service evolve into more of an aggregator and redistributor of decentralized tweet-esque-content with less emphasis on storing all the data themselves (which would be more scalable, open, flexible, blah blah etc.). If I'm right, then at that point they'll be able to wash their hands almost entirely of all of these sorts of issues.

I'm pretty sure this is assumed, but I do appreciate your SHARP WIT WOO LOOK OUT – tobybot, on May 21, 2008 23:20

A great idea. Twitter is *exactly* the kind of service that should support OpenID, and it would add value to both services. I'm surprised it isn't already supported!