yes, this is good idea .. but won' t the service then become like SMTP - Peter Dawson

this is a fascinating demonstration of the organic nature of this medium AND THUS why it's so IMPORTANT that we be able to depend on it! - Thomas Ho

See also: Twitter-proxy: Any Interest? http://assetbar.wordpress.com/2008... - Louis Gray

That's funny, now we have Rights to a reliable Twitter. - Mot Faerin

My first thought was "Jabber" - Kenneth LeFebvre

The proxy idea is interesting -- based on the assumption that the proxies can handle the load as well - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Store and forward will just kill Twitter when it comes back up. If there is a TwtterThingy that jabbers your tweets directly to someone else's TwitterThingy (without storing them) that's fine. But it only works if all your followers and anyone you want to direct message has the Thingy. It's an all or nothing deal and therefore unlikely to happen. It's too late for this idea as far as Twitter is concerned. Twitter is too popular now and will have to fix the problem on its own. - Capn' One Eye - adrift

What about RSS? - Steve Rubel

I think the potential for XMPP relays has a lot of potential and could also help with enterprise use as well. - Tris Hussey

Down again . . - Christian Bolstad