“When Twitter met IRC”

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Two Quick Questions

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How many of you use IRC?

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... and how many of you use Twitter?

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IRC + Twitter

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IRC

• IRC is real time chat

• It’s distributed.

• It’s got a mother f***ing RFC.

• Also, it introduced(?) the concept of fish humour to the intarwebs.

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Twitter

• It’s all web 2.0 (round corners!)

• It’s kind of semi-realtime

• It has trendy people.

• It’s got the rubies and the rails.

• It also has fish humour.

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Fail Whale > Trout.(twitter wins)

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basic twitter functionality, works with twitteriffic and

it runs on top of irc.

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inspired by twetter (built at railscamp) & powered by a fork of ruby-ircd

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