Why is Twitter not just Jabber?
Twitter is a way to post a short message to a wide group of subscribers, and to receive messages posted by a wide group of subscribers. That’s instant messaging. There’s already a standard protocol for it: Jabber (XMPP). Why not just use it? Why invent a new protocol?! Actually, Twitter already does have experimental XMPP […]
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