Twister is amazing

[genjix]

this is the future of crypto messaging:

http://twister.net.co/

better than bitmessage. inspired by bitcoin. uses bittorrent with a blockchain. made by former xine dev. uses libtorrent (libbitcoin was inspired by libtorrent).

this is it.

more info:

https://wiki.unsystem.net/index.php/Twister
Freenode IRC #twister
whitepaper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7152

[pindis]

if they go by the layout they show they are soooooo gonna get sued by twitter. also with the name.

[Peter Lambert]

So, to summarize, it is a knock-off of twitter which is decentralized and cryptographically secure.

I think the mining reward of a promoted message is an interesting idea ... how long will it be until people start pools to mine blocks, sell the space for advertising and pay out rewards to miners in bitcoins?

[Dogtanian]

if they go by the layout they show they are soooooo gonna get sued by twitter. also with the name.

lol, first thing I thought.

[technocoma]

Nice idea but like other people have said its a shame it looks/sounds so much like twitter.

[mskryxz]

i think this is incredible

minus the similar name to twitter and layout as someone already mentioned.

the concept is great and potential to go mainstream is big but getting sued/owned by twitter is risky

[dopey]

So, to summarize, it is a knock-off of twitter which is decentralized and cryptographically secure.

I think the mining reward of a promoted message is an interesting idea ... how long will it be until people start pools to mine blocks, sell the space for advertising and pay out rewards to miners in bitcoins?

Intriguing concept, mining for adspace revenue. It may very well only be a matter of time before this is a reality.

[Peter Lambert]

So, to summarize, it is a knock-off of twitter which is decentralized and cryptographically secure.

I think the mining reward of a promoted message is an interesting idea ... how long will it be until people start pools to mine blocks, sell the space for advertising and pay out rewards to miners in bitcoins?

Intriguing concept, mining for adspace revenue. It may very well only be a matter of time before this is a reality.

I guess that depends on whether people start using Twister. If people are using it, then advertisers will want to get the promoted messages and will start mining pools (or pay other people to make mining pools). If nobody is using Twister, then nobody will care about the promoted messages and nobody will make pools.

Is there a way to bridge between Twitter and Twister? What I mean is, if I make an account on Twister, would it be possible to follow people who post on Twitter?

Why are messages limited to only 140 characters? Does this limitation also apply to direct messages?

[genjix]

So, to summarize, it is a knock-off of twitter which is decentralized and cryptographically secure.

I think the mining reward of a promoted message is an interesting idea ... how long will it be until people start pools to mine blocks, sell the space for advertising and pay out rewards to miners in bitcoins?

there's a lot more possible with this:
https://wiki.unsystem.net/index.php/Twister/Ideas

it could enable many of the difficult to use crypto features of bitcoin like managing a multisig, negotiating some of the contracts, requesting a key to generate new receiver addresses (for privacy). there are many possibilities. it could even obsolete and replace the payment protocol.

[genjix]

i think this is incredible

minus the similar name to twitter and layout as someone already mentioned.

the concept is great and potential to go mainstream is big but getting sued/owned by twitter is risky

if this happens unsystem will invest resources to continue developing it under the same name keeping the same layout.

[genjix]

Is there a way to bridge between Twitter and Twister? What I mean is, if I make an account on Twister, would it be possible to follow people who post on Twitter?

Why are messages limited to only 140 characters? Does this limitation also apply to direct messages?

Yes, you can bridge using gateways between 2 usernames. You can make this gateway easily using a Python script:
http://twister.net.co/?page_id=120

It's limited to 140 chars because that's optimal but AFAIK I don't think it's a fixed limit in the protocol.

[BitcoinBarrel]

Twister looks freaking badass

[Dogtanian]

Why are messages limited to only 140 characters?

Because Twitter is lol

[mskryxz]

Is there anyway to invest into twister?

[hilariousandco]

Why are messages limited to only 140 characters?

Because Twitter is lol

I think that model is outdated anyway. Didn't they only limit it to 140 characters because that's what a text message was?

[genjix]

my twister ids: @genjix @darkwallet

[Voodah]

Nice. This looks promising.

[Carlton Banks]

Is there a way to bridge between Twitter and Twister? What I mean is, if I make an account on Twister, would it be possible to follow people who post on Twitter?

Why are messages limited to only 140 characters? Does this limitation also apply to direct messages?

Yes, you can bridge using gateways between 2 usernames. You can make this gateway easily using a Python script:
http://twister.net.co/?page_id=120

It's limited to 140 chars because that's optimal but AFAIK I don't think it's a fixed limit in the protocol.

Potential PR coup: It would be interesting to automate the gateway in a UI click friendly way. Make it 2-way, then if/when Twitter cancels the accounts of the Twitter-side gateway, the Twister side can still operate (albeit with functional Twitter accounts).

Then, Twitter look like censors, and Twister look all heroic and stuff.

Change the name though. Seriously. Look how unpractical it is to discuss them along side each other, the similarity is actually not a good idea.

[bluemeanie1]

this is the future of crypto messaging:

http://twister.net.co/

better than bitmessage. inspired by bitcoin. uses bittorrent with a blockchain. made by former xine dev. uses libtorrent (libbitcoin was inspired by libtorrent).

this is it.

more info:

https://wiki.unsystem.net/index.php/Twister
Freenode IRC #twister
whitepaper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7152

cool idea, but seems to just inherit the problems of DHTs.

what he's done is use a block chain to manage the registration process and the *claim to an identity*.  Surprisingly, he does not reference Namecoin.  Not sure if he's done better than Diaspora.

Whitepaper is fairly well written.  Nice work, good contribution, but not sure if this is going to change much for most people.

for instance, how does this compare to RetroShare?

[genjix]

this is more elegant than retroshare. retroshare is lets put everything here. twister is next generation.

maybe you can specify some of these problems? i've been emailing the author, and he's a very competent coder.