agree; this new Twirl integration makes rollout of twitter&laconi.ca within the enterprise much more feasible. Ease of use is essential for a successful rollout - Jeroen De Miranda

One problem: Adobe Air. Ain't quite there yet. - Bwana ☠

Indeed, Adobe Air is (not yet) part of the standard desktop/notebook in most Enterprises - Jeroen De Miranda

But the hundreds of other Twitter desktop clone for all platforms can fill that gap. For that matter, as of a few months ago, there were 111 twitter clones in existence. you're telling me that one of them doesn't overlap the functionality of yammer without extorting the userbase? highly doubtful. if yammer was submitted for review on Mashable, we probably would have passed (and I wouldn't be surprised if that actually already happened). - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Mark - good point - I only stressed that there must be a very simple and easy to use interface to both external(twitter) and internal (laconi.ca or similar) platforms. Including Enterprise level security, archiving infrastructure etc. The improvements in internal communication compared to traditional mail infrastructure will be significant in my opinion. Record management might be necessary for compliance reasons. - Jeroen De Miranda

Integration with enterprise Identity and Access management infrastructures (Active Directory) might present some additional benefits. Have to think about it. - Jeroen De Miranda

I disagree that Twhirl makes Yammer irrelevant on 2 levels: 1) An enterprise install of laconica *could* take the place of Yammer, but it wouldn't be Twhirl; 2) Yammer is totally turnkey, we're talking next to zero admin costs at its simplest ... this is far from the case for Laconica. - Clay Newton

Another point: enterprise twitter/laconica could be a great enabler for Change Management programs (much better than traditional email/content management platforms) - it enables more network like and botton-up / sideways communication within the enterprise. - Jeroen De Miranda

Nice analysis, but I'd like to know if Twhirl is customizable when deployed. Will have to look into Twitter for the workplace phenom on manageability. - Eric @ CS Techcast

And essentially, my point wasn't as much the twhirl as the twhirl+laconi.ca . But still, Twhirl is really making strides to stay relevant in a crowd. - Chris Brogan