#“Could Skype build a Twitter competitor?”
Random brain-fart time. I jokingly suggested earlier that Twitter was just a front-end on the Skype IM system which is why both of them are down.
Now I'm sitting here thinking "well ye know………."
Skype has the infrastructure, the contact lists and the userbase.
Could they build both a single-threaded global system like Twitter with asymmetrical relationships and also a variation on their Groups feature, again where people can join rather than being invited?
I always remember that stupid but brilliantly compact line by Thesaurus Gillmor that Twitter was the new dialtone. Shouldn't that really be Skype's job?