Followups
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 by Dave Winer.
Om Malik followed up with Evan Williams at Twitter and corrected the assumption behind my piece published yesterday about new limits in Twitter. 
Also read the comments for more clarification.
In a conference call today with the bit.ly team, we have an instance of laconi.ca running so we can learn how it works, and I had relayed the news that they had federation up and running, and Jay verified that they do. He was able to follow his presence on identi.ca on our instance. He says it's difficult to find the magic bits you need to do it, but he's going to write a howto and I'm going to try to set this up myself. It's a big deal, as I've said before.
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