Dave Winer's Twitter posts for 6/16/2009

New icon. It's green.
@haaswrites -- then tweetdeck has a bug they should fix.
@joehewitt -- For ten points, the correct answer is: Both! :-)
@pierre -- interesting. so their business model must be to build a strategic monopoly and have the US Govt give them a defense contract.
@vodkafish -- what do you mean *when* I'm mellow -- I'm always mellow! :-)
Right about now the President is calling up Eric Schmidt asking how quickly he can get his Twitter clone up. "Don't worry Mr. President."
@pierre -- I hear sometimes defense contracts are worth *billions* of dollars. :-)
@chrispugh -- wave that's a good one. you think wave is easy enough to use so that it could organize a revolution in iran? i don't.
this thing got out of hand much faster than obama probably thought it could. he just dipped his toe into it last summer. now it's act 2.
crazy thing was it was all there last summer, we saw it (the people everyone thought were nuts). as usual no one listened.
truth is they're using it now but they still aren't listening. that includes ev and biz. and the board of twitter. they're toe-dippers too.
this is powerful medicine, you know power to the people and all that.
@bergus -- damn straight once twitter has serious competition they'll be begging for an open protocol.
Damn. Wish I had thought of that. :-) http://tr.im/oJDc
Here's another green character. Don't say I never gave you anything. :-) http://tr.im/oJDs
Home Drifts Down River. http://tr.im/oJDJ
I think Google or Facebook could launch a serious competitor. Here's how --> http://tr.im/oJGT
Fresh Air interviews Woody Allen (Scripting News). http://tr.im/oKcv
RT @donpark "if facebook really wants to compete with twitter, they should leave facebook alone and build a separate service then integrate"
Twitter. Needs. Competition. (Scripting News) http://tr.im/oKKl