Every day I believe more and more Twitter is to microblogging what Compuserve and AOL were to the world-wide web in the early 90s. Those betting their hopes on Laconica being the solution are kidding themselves, though. - Mark Trapp

Jaiku works perfectly for internal company "tweeting" too. You should check it out. http://bit.ly/jaikuengine - EricaJoy

It's strikes me as noteworthy that when Twitter was having issues a few months back, there was a lot of noise related to the fact that the blogging/publishing model obviously couldn't scale, and that it would be necessary to go to a messaging (e.g. XMPP) backbone. Then Laconica rolled out with a RDBMS publishing model on the back end, Twitter did whatever they needed to do to work around the problems, and now everyone just seems to be assuming once again that it's the proper model. - Ken Sheppardson

...i.e. that all you have to do is slap a theme on Wordpress and you've got a scalable microblogging engine. - Ken Sheppardson

Looks like another prediction coming true: http://staynalive.com/article... - Jesse Stay

Heh Jesse - you're right. Prediction #1 comes true. - Hutch Carpenter

The problem with this approach is it's all still working on a backbone that was built for blogging, not microblogging. I haven't looked thoroughly, but it would seem scalability would be tough with this approach. - Jesse Stay

Also, how will it work with OMB? Or how are they working with others to standardize how it will communicate with other microblogging platforms? - Jesse Stay

Jesse: Did you make that prediction before or after they rolled out the Prologue theme in January 2008? ;-) http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008... - Ken Sheppardson

Ken: when everyone is creating their own microblogging service for their own purposes, the question stops being "how can I use Twitter to do X" and becomes, "how can we get all these services talking to each other?" Think Email: I can set up a mail server on some 10 year old equipment. Will it scale to 10 million people? Definitely not. But it serves a specific purpose and can talk to all the other mail servers without a hitch. Laconica, for the reasons you described (among many others) is not the solution. - Mark Trapp

Nice observation Mark - Hutch Carpenter