Twitter is all the rage now a days. Is it a big deal? Well status.net seem to think so. If you are interested in hosting your own Twitter like service you can download the package free from the site. Here is another site you can checkout using the same package. Petstatus.com setup a site where owners update the status of their pets. If you have a web design idea using this product let me know.
Does the world need more than one Twitter? How about 10,000 of them? That is how many sites are running on the hosted version of StatusNet, which went into private beta at our Realtime CrunchUp last November. Today, StatusNet is opening up its hosted service to all comers in a public beta.
via StatusNet Signs Sh*t My Dad Says For Hosted Microblogging (Public Beta).
