Is Twitter making a profit or not?
The other consideration is scalability and reliability. Twitter has been subject to numerous feature disablements due to capacity issues, as well as complete outages. Furthermore, Twitter does not appear to be deployed in a distributed, highly-available architecture.
The Twitter *aggregation/attention model* is what is of great interest, any merits of the specific service aside.
exactly, its like VHS versus BETAMAX , not the better system wins,its just better maketing and popularity. just my 2 cents http://identi.ca/macbroadcast/ < the opensource distributed alternative > http://laconi.ca/ -- Les enfants teribbles - research / deployment Marc Manthey Vogelsangerstrasse 97 D - 50823 Köln - Germany Vogelsangerstrasse 97 Geo: 50.945554, 6.920293 PGP/GnuPG: 0x1ac02f3296b12b4d Tel.:0049-221-29891489 Mobil:0049-1577-3329231 web : http://www.let.de Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise). Please note that according to the German law on data retention, information on every electronic information exchange with me is retained for a period of six months.