i was gonna make a mega post about this but really i can sum it up in a few lines so instead of doing a blog i'll do something a little bit longer than a tweet (hey, might be down anyway sic) and a proper post. So yeah why do we get all pissy when a free app with no clear way of making cash anytime soon or offering pro accounts for a certain level of quality goes down.
When did we start treating twitter like a utility? - shit happens, read up about ddos - realize that the bigger twitter gets the more this will happen - the underground have clouds to you know and they have them connected to farms of experimental zombie bots and it only takes someone at 4chan to be annoyed and pop - your off the internet until they have made a trip out for some pizza and decide you can join in the interwebs fun again. No service is gospel on the internet.
My tip? - encrypted next generation quantum p2p protocol (wave 3.0+) with some kind of dns hosts around the globe, downloadable application - transports packets of content between you and your friend network - local push in same geo location via bluetooth or any other means you decide to allow the app to use. distribute the db/api across cloudfronted type systems and run twitter like a smart grid. distribute and local collect messages from those more local.
have a fallback mode to store and send critically messages via open protocol that other message sites can act on in a standby emergency mode. think digital ham radio, think back into the mobile grid by gateway from web to sms gateways. if you wanna run it like a utility think about that api then think that some 'tard is always gonna find a protocol hack. do not try and outsmart, outwit - refactor and give more routes in and out in as many different formats as possible. build a basic stack protocol for twitter that can be built into mobile phones at the hardware level.
