Micro-blogging

[Travis Newman]

Actually this is much easier in identi.ca than it is in twitter. Twitter
lacks groups, which is unfortunate. Anyone wishing to join the Ubuntu VA
group on identi.ca, find it here:
http://identi.ca/group/ubuntuva

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Travis Newman <panickedthumb at gmail.com>wrote:

> Great idea Scott. I'll do this after work. Do you (or anyone else) know if
> there is a way to make an identi.ca account postable by multiple users?
> With grouptweet we have it so that multiple people can send direct messages
> to @ubuntu_virginia, and they will be posted to the @ubuntu_virginia
> account. If we could do something similar with identi.ca, that would be
> ideal.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Scott Abbey <scott at eotr.net> wrote:
>
>> I noticed that a Twitter [1] account was set up for the Virginia team.
>> I would suggest that we also create an identi.ca [2] account. For
>> those that don't know, identi.ca is a Twitter-like service that runs
>> on laconi.ca [3], an open source implementation of the open
>> microblogging spec. It seems appropriate for a group that professes
>> free software ideals to use a platform that runs on free software in
>> preference to a closed system like Twitter. That doesn't mean that I
>> think we should stop using Twitter. On the contrary, identi.ca makes
>> it easy to cross post to both: linking the accounts in identi.ca
>> allows posts you submit to identi.ca to be automatically forwarded to
>> Twitter.
>>
>> (FYI my identi.ca [4] and my Twitter [5] accounts.)
>>
>>  1. http://www.twitter.com/ubuntu_virginia
>>  2. http://identi.ca
>>  3. http://laconi.ca
>>  4. http://identi.ca/malakhi
>>  5. http://www.twitter.com/eotr
>>
>> --
>> Scott Abbey <scott at eotr.net>
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