Thursday, January 15, 2009

Re: [BLUG] open-source twitter workalike

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 03:07:31AM GMT, Ben Shewmaker [ben@shewbox.org] said the following:
> I think it's great to see open source alternatives to these types of web
> apps. Services like twitter and facebook are immensely popular but I don't
> always like to have these communication tools locked down in a proprietary
> system. Of course the main problem with the alternatives is that if none of
> your friends use them you still end up on twitter and/or facebook to be able
> to communicate with them.
>

I think the problem is that they are thought of as alternatives
instead of something new.


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