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BLATOCOL: distributed microblogging service for early adopters
(ВПЦ НаУКМА, 2011) Zahozhenko, Pavlo; Syniavsky, Oleksandr
Having recently become mainstream, microblogging services face several challenges due to their implementation constraints. First, their centralised architecture means each service has scalability and reliability issues; second, signal to noise ratio tends to degrade as more people are joining the service and it becomes exploited by spammers and marketing experts; third, public microblogging services, particularly Twitter, is effectively a form of mass media, which raises the question whether such an influential news source should be allowed to be controlled by a single for-profit corporation. This paper describes the architecture of a niche distributed microblogging service, targeting early adopters, which addresses all of the major shortcomings of current microblogging solutions. This service is fully distributed, so it doesn’t have a single point of failure, nor does it need investments in its infrastructure in order to scale. Its niche nature and features allow it to maintain high signal-to noise ratio throughout all stages of its lifecycle. The proposed service is also open-source, has documented specification and open data format, that nullifies the possibility of its monopolic control by a single organisation.