Twitter as a Tuple-Space Platform

2010-04-17T18:08:38Z

Daniel Lucraft: Twitter is turning itself from a social network into a gigantic tuple-space pubsub platform that just happens to have a big social network implemented on top of it. [via Simon Willison]

Marcel Molina: We want to provide open-ended utility for all the developers to innovate on top of.

Overview:

sets of namespace, name, value
encodings: JSON, form parameters, XML
immutable
limited to ~2K bytes per tweet (TBD)
search intended but again TBD.

I’d love to see this cloned at the desktop (think: NotifyOSD/growl), and at the LAN level (based on something like CouchDB).