Critical Mass! Critical Mass!
Many moons ago, I had an old drummer of mine tell me that (Critical Mass) would be a great name for our band. Of course the other guys all agreed it sounded like another Korn wannabe band.
Funny thing is that back in those days (to the part of many moons ago), they (Korn) were still an almost signed band. In anycase as Mashable pointed out from my post last night, identi.ca reached just that.
Quite funny that we all love twitter so much that once there was a service that really spoke to the tweeters, it reached critical mass that quickly. I still like it though. Even though I can’t subscribe to other dent’rs that have subscribed to me right now, it still does the one thing I like. It flat out WORKS. Gtalk still posts, as evidenced in the public stream.
Do people online just need an ability to say things that badly that when a service like twitter goes unstable, we all look for the next best thing? The ability to spout that I’m listening to Dr. Feelgood I suppose makes me, well, feel good. Many people also think that there is something to this whole phenomenon of instant 140 character wisdom.
Whatever the case is, I believe the developers of identi.ca are quite pleasantly surprised today that they reached critical mass this quick. Now let’s sit back and watch how this thing scales. Adding more servers quickly would be a great idea (obvious!).
Technically Speaking, I really need to get back to work now!
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