greetings

I doubt these other services will beat Twitter though, I think they'll all just take a federated route and that Twitter will follow once it retains some market value and value to it's users.

One great thing about the company is Evan's attitude. Like on his comment on this post, and any other comment you manage to find of his, he always does a great job of integrating positive comments about his “competitors” and the future of microblogging.

I just hope to see more development over time focusing on things like user experience, tools, and that sort of stuff… Which I'm sure they're working on.

I'd much rather build a business that depends on the /success/ of Twitter than on supplanting or dislodging them. Twitter is doing an excellent job of popularizing and spreading the idea of microblogging. There are a lot of entrepreneurs and CIOs who are looking for ways to implement their own microblogging sites — “I want my own Twitter!” Those are Identica's customers.

We've already got contracts for installation, customization and maintenance of public sites, and more in the pipeline. There are in-house pilot programs at *big* companies to use the Identica software for enterprise microblogging, and I expect those to continue to grow. Additionally, we'll be rolling out a hosted service in the beginning of this year — think federated Yammer — which I think will be another good way for folks to try out the code.

All of which is to say: we're making a business that builds on Twitter's success. I think that having a complementary and compatible Open Source package is a great way to ride that wave. Wish us luck.