Twitter has more in common with instant messaging than it does IRC. Basically twitter is a disconnected version of AIM with an arbitrary message size limit.
IRC is an open standard, free to be implemented by anyone and interoperates with everyone. That's pretty much the anti-thesis of Twitter, which is a service, not a protocol.
Sorry, I meant in social terms, rather than the technical or business model. The way I see people using Twitter reminds me of the social dynamics on IRC, just on a much larger scale.
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Twitter has more in common with instant messaging than it does IRC. Basically twitter is a disconnected version of AIM with an arbitrary message size limit.
IRC is an open standard, free to be implemented by anyone and interoperates with everyone. That's pretty much the anti-thesis of Twitter, which is a service, not a protocol.
Sorry, I meant in social terms, rather than the technical or business model. The way I see people using Twitter reminds me of the social dynamics on IRC, just on a much larger scale.