Numerous people complain about Twitter’s deficiencies. In fact some people, including M.G. Siegler, may think that microblogging platform Twitter is doomed. Canadian Wikitravel and Certifi.ca founder Evan Prodromou has built an open-source microblogging tool that will allow users an option to instead than Twitter. Siegler, has said, “That’s why I’ve said in the past that the only thing that can kill Twitter is Twitter itself. If the service keeps failing to work, people will leave not out of choice, but out of necessity. I don’t think that’s going to happen because I think Twitter will right its ship before we get to that point.”

Prodromou crafted an open source platform named Laconi.ca and a hub site, Identi.ca, to fight the “walled garden” situation of the Web 2.0 world. One example is: Robert Scoble being kicked off Facebook for running code to port out his numerous contacts.)

According to Prodromou. People can use the Laconi.ca platform to brand their own microblogging for their own site, or as a sub-site. This is where the income will come in eventually; running on a “freemium” model, those who do extensive rebranding of the platform for their own presence or company, or boast hundreds of users, will pay a fee.

Marshall Kirkpatrick of the blog Read Write Web also rants about the neophyte technical specification OpenMicroblogging, which “allows users of one supporting subscription to send and receive messages securely across different microblogging services,” thus guaranteeing improved interoperability.

Prodromou claims that this application has many uses in enterprise, where workers can use — and already are utilizing — microblogging to communicate with each other and update coworkers on project progress or whereabouts.

My thoughts are similar to Seigler’s in that Twitter is the only thing that can destroy Twitter. Personally I have never had a lot of trouble with it and I still believe it is a great tool.

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