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Category: Technology Author : Duncan Riley Posted: December 3, 2008
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Fail: Twitter now not going to support OpenMicroblogging

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Just when we thought Twitter may have finally redeemed themselves, they change their mind.

We ran a story at the beginning of November reporting that Twitter was looking at adopting support for the OpenMicroblogging standard, a play that would open up Twitter to real competition and ultimately be a great do the right thing community play from a company that has a track record of ignoring its users.

Alas though, it isn’t to be. Jesse Stay writes on LouisGray.com that Twitter has decided against playing nicely with it neighbors, saying that the standard isn’t right for Twitter and wouldn’t work for them. In return though it would appear that any move by Twitter was lip service, with notes that Twitter has not tried to communicate with the OpenMicroblogging community to address concerns. Evan Prodromou (Indenti.ca), head of the OpenMicroblogging group today offered again to hear suggestions from Twitter that could be incorporated in the standard, but with no response.

Sad, but not entirely unexpected. I guess they’re too busy working on a “revenue stream” they’re now promising for next year.


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    How would adopting this standard benefit Twitter as a company in the near term? It seems like now is not the right time for them to open up...maybe once they've gone mainstream. Please explain your position.
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    Amusingly, the Outbrain recommendations say:

    Twitter Withdraws Plans for Supporting OpenMicroblogging (@louisgray.com: live: Silicon Valley Blog)
    Twitter Planning to Implement OpenMicroblogging Standard (@louisgray.com: live: Silicon Valley Blog)

    That would be the beginning and end of the story. Well played, Outbrain!
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    Back on July 20, when Identi.ca and the OMB standard had been live for some 17 days, someone filed Issue 33* on the twitter-api Google Code page, requesting OMB support. Two days later, Alex Payne, API Lead labeled the request "-Type-Defect -Priority-Medium Type-Enhancement Priority-Low" and said:

    "Sure, someday, after it sees some adoption.".

    He didn't actually mark the issue "Accepted" until Aug 11, when he wrote:

    "Changing this to 'Accepted' just so it doesn't jump out at me when I'm scanning for new issues. It's going to be some time before work on this begins, though."

    Almost three months later, when this was dug up and spun into "Twitter is planning to support OMB" I tried to point out what most developers who use bug tracking systems already know: Changing an issue's status so that "it doesn't jump out at me when I'm scanning for new issues" is about as far from "planning to support" as you can get. So guess what... now that they've actually thought about it, it's a WontFix.

    I suppose it's entertaining to treat comments on bugs and status changes like they were statements by the Fed Chairman made before Congress, but as critical as I've been of Twitter, it's disingenuous to give this so much attention.

    * Issue 33: OpenMicroBlogging Support (http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/det...)
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    I thought it interesting that Twitter opted out of Openmicroblogging on the same day that Facebook announced that their logins would work at Twitter. http://is.gd/aaWf
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    Open Source Developers and users, Break the chains of web 2.0 share cropping. Understand that Twitter is a closed source application.

    Twitter the friendly little bird wants to become a closed source monopoly. Twitter wants to lock you and your content into their closed silo and they want to generate millions in revenue off of your content, and for this they will give nothing back to you or your community .

    With an Open Source solution you at least have a copy of the application that you have given value. With Open Source you have a choice. If you want to do things differently you are “Free” to take the software and do so. This kind of Freedom also keeps any ideas of vendor/data/content lock in out of the picture.

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