Twitter and its clones seem to be growing like weeds wherever you look, and are starting to spam each other with location updates if you’re a user. Rewind back ten years to the start of the decade we’re just leaving and there’s a distinct similarity with instant messaging and the birth of XMPP standards. Instant messaging (IM) became a darling of the web 1.0 boom, with an academic paper of the …
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The Dawn of Twitter: Echoes of Instant Messaging Evolution (ZDNet)