Doesn't that make this service website independent?
It is like twitter without the downtime, or twitter with multiple twitter networks all being able to collaborate with one another, or twitter without legal BS.<p>And those are beautiful ramifications. Flaws anyone?
Read the whitepaper and it sounds pretty amazing. The one downside is the spam messages, which they say are important to the security of the network, and that clients cannot hide them, but don't explain a method to prevent clients from hiding them. If they really are essential to the security of the network then there needs to be more than shaming, right?
"send text posts limited to 140 characters"<p>That's just weird. Like putting horses reins on an early automobile, or putting a hopper in the front of the car to pour oats into.<p>"Bitcoin, in the sense of the digital currency, is not used at all"<p>I had to LOL at this. BTC is popular enough to try to piggyback completely unrelated things using the term as a lure. I've lived thru the "turbo" era, the "e-" and "i-" era and now we're entering the BTC era, where we can soon expect shampoos and hamburgers to be "BTC shampoo" and "BTC hamburgers" as a marketing gimmick.
The incentive to 'mine' in this scheme is the possibility of winning the ability to send a sponsored message to all users.
These sponsored messages could easily be filtered by users, making them worthless.
Even if users collectively agree not to filter the sponsored messages, the average cost of winning the proof-of-work race must be less than the average value of the sponsored messages, which is unlikely.
><i>No IP recording<p>The IP address you use to access twister is not recorded on any server. Your online presence is not announced.</i><p>Can you really make that claim with a distributed protocol? Your IP address is visible to whoever you send data to, they could easily keep logs (heck my router does by default).
You can accomplish the same with Bitmessage broadcast addresses, and it solves the spam issue with proof of work.<p><a href="https://bitmessage.org/" rel="nofollow">https://bitmessage.org/</a>
are there other open source versions of Twitter? I could gladly use this one if I could embed mathematical equations in it - e.g. with mathJax <a href="http://www.mathjax.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mathjax.org/</a> - and possibly lift the 140 character limit.