Please review my twitter clone

I know how hard it is to try to build a tool that already exist, one advice quit doing twitter; instead build a good complement of twitter. Think of features that twitter does not offer, find ways to leverage the power of twitter, use its API to provide cooler stuff.

One thing to know is that the hardest part is not to implement twitter as an application; the hardest part is to convince people to use it and technically scale.

Re: Please review my twitter clone

#6

Post by mgrouchy » Fri, Jul 10, 2009, 4:24 PM UTC

brk wrote: post #2

Honest question: Why? Why are you attempting to make a Twitter clone? (I'm genuinely curious)

I think that is exactly the question to be asking. Of course the other question to ask is whats up with the horrible unprofessional looking logo?

Re: Please review my twitter clone

#7

Post by zacharydanger » Fri, Jul 10, 2009, 4:28 PM UTC

mgrouchy wrote: post #6

brk wrote: post #2

Honest question: Why? Why are you attempting to make a Twitter clone? (I'm genuinely curious)

I think that is exactly the question to be asking. Of course the other question to ask is whats up with the horrible unprofessional looking logo?

It's a Laconica install. This is pointless. It's like saying, "Checkout my StackOverflow clone" and then linking to a phpBB install.

Re: Please review my twitter clone

#8

Post by jonursenbach » Fri, Jul 10, 2009, 4:38 PM UTC

Learn to use a spell checker. There's your review.

Re: Please review my twitter clone

#9

Post by aassddff » Fri, Jul 10, 2009, 4:47 PM UTC

jasoncartwright wrote: post #4

My friends are on twitter, why should I use this?

It's open source (laconi.ca), scalable, easy to install, and easy to theme/develop with. It uses the openmicroblogging protocol giving you the ability to subscribe to users on other services and receive their updates, etc. It allows image uploading via other services APIs from the site itself. It has a twitter compatible API, you can subscribe to your twitter friends, as well as cross post to twitter, etc. It has XMPP, Email, SMS, API gateways. URL shortening, the ability to create groups, etc, etc. I've been following it's development off and on for about a year now, and great project. I don't use twitter or laconica/identica myself, so the usefulness of it is arguable. Regardless, I've had fun playing with the code.

Re: Please review my twitter clone

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Post by moe » Fri, Jul 10, 2009, 5:42 PM UTC

aassddff wrote: post #9

jasoncartwright wrote: post #4

My friends are on twitter, why should I use this?

It's open source (laconi.ca), scalable, easy to install, and easy to theme/develop with. It uses the openmicroblogging protocol giving you the ability to subscribe to users on other services and receive their updates, etc. It allows image uploading via other services APIs from the site itself. It has a twitter compatible API, you can subscribe to your twitter friends, as well as cross post to twitter, etc. It has XMP…

You didn't answer his question.