Comments on: An Open Twitter-like Network, Powered by Email.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:19:08 +0000

Dude, this idea is awesome! Twitter is totally starting to tighten up, this would be a sweet return to the open network. It’d be cool if ICANN issued a special designation for opentweet web pages. Like http://www.chris.ot

Mate, make it happen – this idea is so cool

By: Guido Jansen

Guido Jansen — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:58:39 +0000

Brilliant, love it! Where can I get the client? 😉

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:01:56 +0000

Excellent contribution Christian, thanks! You’re right about using existing protocols for discovery.

By: Christian Weiske

Christian Weiske — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 08:55:17 +0000

Instead of a opentweet.txt, please use .well-known/host-meta (RFC6415) and perhaps the WebFinger protocol (in the standardization process). There are already libs for that in many programming languages, which makes it easy to add opentweet discovery.

I’d be basically the process: fetch /.well-known/host-meta and look for the opentweet-types links in there. Done.

If you want links for multiple users, use webfinger.

By: Graham

Graham — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:05:44 +0000

HAHAHA – love it Ash….so simple it’s crazy!

By: Clemens

Clemens — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:43:59 +0000

Interesting thought. Just bevore Google buys them all ;(