Joss Winn wrote:
+1 for pulling messages from those you are following on Twitter into
Laconica. Best feature I've heard suggested yet. However much I like
Laconica and want to use it for all my mublogging, it's where your
community is that matters and 90% of my community is happy to use
Twitter.
So, first of all, use the invitation system.
Second, there are lots of big pains in the butt with this process.
First, we'll have to actually pull your friends' data from Twitter. That
means we'll need to poll their API periodically -- which will interfere
if you're using another API client. It'll also be a lot of work for us
-- making tens or hundreds of thousands of API calls every 5 minutes (or
whatever the throttle time is now).
Second, we'll have to figure out licensing. I'm pretty sure that the
only requirement is a link back to Twitter (see
http://twitter.com/terms), but there may be other requirements.
We may need to make sure that Twitter statuses from your friends are
only visible to /you/ -- in the Web interface, IM output, RSS feeds, and
API output. That's a big hassle; it's also going to screw up our caching.
Also, we'll have to deal with nickname issues. That's going to suck.
Finally, some high-profile people in our community really hate this
idea. (e.g., Steve Gillmor).
I can see making this functionality work, but it's a huge undertaking,
and I'm not entirely sure I like what kind of site and what kind of
community we'd be afterwards.
-Evan
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