July 6 at 10:45 pm
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Re-posting my comment from the blog: The reason you don't get much spam on Twitter is that you can't send messages to groups of people... You can post statuses, and anyone who's chosen to follow you will see it, but it was their choice to follow you. You can send individual direct messages, but that's one-to-one communication and doesn't scale like spammers like. With Email I can just send messages to multiple addresses. Similarly with a Jabber server using pubsub, if I run my own and enter false subscriptions, I can spam a whole slew of Jabber addresses. The distributed model would make this trivial, and spammers would certainly take advantage.
Yes, Email and IRC are stable... but what could they have been? What if you'd been able to easily define email forms that people could fill out and return? All of the things built on Lotus Notes were an attempt to turn Email into a more valuable business tool, but the standards made those innovations a lock-in to one platform (and a poor one at that).... - Jason Carreira
Did you delete my comment?! - Cyndy
No, you commented on the Hunting the Fail Whale post - Jason Carreira
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