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Twitter, you say? That’s the walled garden on the edge of the microblogging universe that doesn’t interoperate with anything else or support open standards, right?

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Ciaran: email is now starting to trickle in.  I’ll look into the openness of twitter.  The reason why I haven’t looked into such things before, is that I have a much more basic concern.  But when my site is not fully operational, and when email was down, it seemed like a refuge I could use for the moment.  I’ll play with it a bit and see how it goes.

Stupidly, having just read that your email was down, I sent you an email on that subject. I will reproduce it here, as I should have done in the first place....

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By the way, there was a serious point to my flippant comment.

By using an OMB-based microblogging service (Identica
being a prime example) you would:

a) Be supporting open standards and open source
b) Still be able to communicate with twitter users, since you
  can opt to have it automatically update your twitter account
  as well
c) Be able to use XMPP, which twitter temporarily supported in
  a broken fashion then permanently abandoned
d) Be accessible to all users of OMB-based services (e.g.
  my own personal one ), since OMB is a federated service

Just a thought, in case you weren’t aware. I daresay you have
more important things to worry about.

OK, I’m sold.  I’ll give twitter a brief try, and if I decide that this microblogging things is for me, I’ll install a local version of Identica, just like I have done with XMPP.

Another uber-simple option:  Sign up with ping.fm and let them fan out your microblogging to twitter, identi.ca, facebook and your own custom PHP (so you can get your data out).

That’s what I do anyway.  Of course that only preserves your own microblog posts (not responses), but it’s something.  One day I’ll have to look into laconica.