[hans]

always wondered why an open source service hasn't risen up and become partly useful like twitter.

there was talk back in the app.net days with lots of wonder for what developers would do with an open twitter-like system, with open clients, open data etc.

imo it would be quite cool to have an open source content system like twitter that actually maintains a live service, where the git project auto-magic manages the production pipeline to live.

but imagine a fully open system providing tweet streams with little direct corporate involvement.

(who knows how to fund the bandwidth etc)