Twitter client for the Commodore 64!

[Trev]

Twitter's API is just a simple web service, isn't it? Contiki and uIP are cool, but harnessing them to use Twitter (which was even deemed Slashdot worthy) doesn't seem like much of a stretch.

Twitter has a cute mascot, but unlike the rest of the world, I still don't see how text messaging--a sideband hack--is better than an actual voice conversation. Is it just me?

[Trev]

Right now I'm using twitter because it's the only way I can keep track of whats happening in Iran. None of the mainstream media is really touching it, and twitter offers a great way for people to use their voices in more or less realtime.

Now that's a valid use. I think the western world should just lob a few communications satellites above the middle east (and anywhere else a nation's leadership doesn't answer to its people), drop satellite phones instead of Hershey bars in their care packages, and see what happens. It's expensive, but once the revolution occurs, you can cancel everyone's "free" service and send in the telcos with their service contracts. Call the phones a subsidized loss leader. But, I'm not sure letting AT&T or BT control access to speech is any better than what some of those countries have today.

[Trev]

If I had an oppressive, faith-based government that limited freedom of speech and expression? You betcha. (Wait. Didn't we have one of those for the last eight years?)

But apart from the obvious benefits in places like Iran, I still don't get social networking, via Twitter or otherwise. EDIT: Unless it's to keep up with my BFFs Ashton and Demi. OMG, they are like so funny.