Comments on: If Twitter weren't bad enough, now there's open-source Twoorl

Open source isn't a panacea: It can't take bad ideas and magically turn them into good ideas, any more than it can take bad code and magically turn it into good code. But it can enable smart people to turn the basic Twitter idea, using Twoorl, int

[mosburger]

When e-mail first came out, lots of people said "why do I need this? Why can't I just Fax a memo?" When IM came out, people didn't understand what it was capable of doing that couldn't just be done with e-mail.

It's fine that you don't have a use for Twitter right now, but lots of people do, and I'm convinced that even more will in the future. Ridicule it at your own risk, someday you might have to eat those words! :)

[mosburger]

When e-mail first came out, lots of people said "why do I need this? Why can't I just Fax a memo?" When IM came out, people didn't understand what it was capable of doing that couldn't just be done with e-mail.

It's fine that you don't have a use for Twitter right now, but lots of people do, and I'm convinced that even more will in the future. Ridicule it at your own risk, someday you might have to eat those words! :)

[akiba_freak]

hey mosburger... you aren't from Japan by any chance? I do most of my coding for my open source project inside a mos burger in tokyo. They have NTT Hotspot internet access, the staff leave you alone, and you can write software for six hours on a 140 yen bottle of jasmine tea. hmm...their burgers seem like they might be pretty good too.

I think the motivation behind Twoorl is for Yariv to publicise Erlang and Erlyweb by giving the community an example of what it can do. Replicating Twitter seems like a reasonable way to do that to me. +1 Yariv.