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Twitter Announcement: IM is not coming back soonOctober 10

Twitter have finally come out and responded on the Status blog about Instant Messenger support or the lack of, this is what they had to say;

In October 2006, just three months after Twitter launched publicly, we added IM support—i.e., the ability to get and send tweets via XMPP/Jabber/Google Talk. I was a big fan of this feature, because this interface, which millions of people were already familiar with, seemed a perfect fit for Twitter’s real-time nature.

In December of 2006, we extended that support to AIM, enabling a much bigger number of users to interface with Twitter via the same system they talk to their friends on all day.

While off to an early start, since then, our IM feature has been, well…spotty. We first killed AIM support after struggling for months to make it reliable (which was a side-project to trying to keep the service as a whole reliable). And our Jabber support has been up and down until about four-and-a-half months ago when it’s just been…down.

We’ve been unclear about its status and what to expect; I want to clarify that now.

First: I know a lot of people love this feature. I’ve heard personally from many folks who say it’s critical for their enjoyment of Twitter. So it kills me that we haven’t been able to deliver on this consistently. And the bad news is, we don’t have a quick fix.

A New Way of Doing Things
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Kakuteru, Semantic lifestreaming on RailsOctober 10

A new SweetCron inspired lifestreaming service has emerged on the horizion. Kakuteru which is in the private alpha stage at the moment is a semantic web enabled self hosted lifestreaming service that comes with a boat load of features straight out of the box.

Basic Features
  • Uses Friendfeed.com as a core lifestream backend (tweets, video, photo and bookmarks currently supported)
  • Uses Disqus.com to support comments on articles & stream updates
  • Articles can be written using Textile, Markdown or HTML
  • Published articles will display Tweet-this, Digg and Addthis.com if voting is enabled
  • “Me on other sites” are automatically gathered from Friendfeed
Semantic Features
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