Distributed Twitter

[andrewducker]

Can anyone see a way that a distributed Twitter could work?

Obviously you could use RSS to aggregate tweeters you like into one place - but that only covers very basic functionality.  For instance, I can't see a way to both decentralise it _and_ allow for hashtag filtering over the whole database to find the tweets you like.

Any thoughts?

Comments

[nameandnature]

I'm guessing servers won't be run by individuals who trust each other but by service providers like Twitter (or ISPs if such a thing became popular, like email is and news used to be). Providers probably take money from users (or show them ads) but they don't trust them. If I can inject a tweet saying "andrewducker is wearing baggy pants today" at my local server and have it propagate everywhere, you might get a bit annoyed. Hence magical crypto fairy dust.