We still need the thing that Twitter ought to have been, a public short messaging service.
Who is going to step up? What kind of institution could deliver something like that, while remaining open and accountable? A Wikipedia style foundation?
My guess is that it needn't be (too) expensive to run, especially if you hand over responsibility for long term storage of the messages to third parties.
My PhD (in progress) is based on the public utility of Twitter data. I'm deeply sad about this.
Who is going to step up? What kind of institution could deliver something like that, while remaining open and accountable? A Wikipedia style foundation?
My guess is that it needn't be (too) expensive to run, especially if you hand over responsibility for long term storage of the messages to third parties.
My PhD (in progress) is based on the public utility of Twitter data. I'm deeply sad about this.