Automattic launches a Twitter style service for groups

 

 

Automattic has released Prologue, a Twitter style service for groups that is also being pitched as a distributed Twitter.

According to Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg, the new service is way for users to share short messages with a corporate structure, or with private messaging between different groups. Mullenweg says that although it’s not initially aimed at becoming a distributed Twitter, they are offering the template on an open source basis and that if people want to hack it for this purpose, “you’re welcome to.”

The concept is to decentralize a short message service, therefore overcoming the constant issues Twitter has with service provision, or in simple terms, many people host the service across many servers, and they all talk to one and other.

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Downtime at Twitter

 

 

Even after moving to a new data center, Twitter has been undergoing some growing pains. Royal Pingdom reports that the service has been down almost a total of six days since it began monitoring the service last February.

Downtime so far in December has exceeded almost any preceding month, with nearly 11 hours of downtime, compared to 9 hours in November.

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Twitter has confimed it has raised $5.4 million

 

 

Short-hand blog company Twitter disclosed in a regulatory filing that it has raised $4.8 million of a $5.4 million Series B round. It's the same round that got reported back in July, from Union Square Ventures and Charles River Ventures.

The company is not currently raising new capital, although could do so sometime next year. There is still no indication of the business model.

Given the large amount of finance raised someone at Twitter must have a good idea how they will one day make some money.

We hope they figure out how to make their money before they have spent all their money.

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