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Please review my twitter clone

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5 pointssecgeek15 comments

Honest question: Why?

Why are you attempting to make a Twitter clone? (I'm genuinely curious)

I think that is exactly the question to be asking. Of course the other question to ask is whats up with the horrible unprofessional looking logo?

It's a Laconica install. This is pointless. It's like saying, "Checkout my StackOverflow clone" and then linking to a phpBB install.

Here's a twitter clone idea you can steal:

a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: Why are you attempting to make a Twitter clone (today)?

Sounds like Yammer.com, which is Twitter aimed at internal business teams.

Seem to be running the Identica platform, is there any features you are providing that Twitter/Identica does not have at the moment?

Learn to use a spell checker. There's your review.

i think yes i need to use spell checker.. but its just a start,so it will take some time..

My friends are on twitter, why should I use this?

It's open source (laconi.ca), scalable, easy to install, and easy to theme/develop with. It uses the openmicroblogging protocol giving you the ability to subscribe to users on other services and receive their updates, etc. It allows image uploading via other services APIs from the site itself. It has a twitter compatible API, you can subscribe to your twitter friends, as well as cross post to twitter, etc. It has XMPP, Email, SMS, API gateways. URL shortening, the ability to create groups, etc, etc. I've been following it's development off and on for about a year now, and great project. I don't use twitter or laconica/identica myself, so the usefulness of it is arguable. Regardless, I've had fun playing with the code.

You didn't answer his question.

Good work!

I know how hard it is to try to build a tool that already exist, one advice quit doing twitter; instead build a good complement of twitter. Think of features that twitter does not offer, find ways to leverage the power of twitter, use its API to provide cooler stuff.

One thing to know is that the hardest part is not to implement twitter as an application; the hardest part is to convince people to use it and technically scale.

what is the meaning of the word "doign" in the website's logo?

thats a typo,need to modify..

Colors are dull, use vibrant colors to appeal the younger generation.

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