[sjclemmy]

I agree - Twitter is the de facto messaging platform. Taking the idea a bit further, Twitter could be used instead of SQS and other messaging solutions / protocols. That'd be pretty cool. Twitter could be the way the IoT communicate with their AI overlords.

[dagw]

Twitter is the de facto messaging platform.

Only in your little corner of the world. I honestly don't know a single person who uses twitter on a day to day basis.

[parasubvert]

And I know hundreds.

Twitter is so common in tech industry circles - so many announcements , debates, and moments happen there weekly that I would think it's essential if you care about that stuff.

Truth is there is no canonical place to get the pulse of what's going on in the tech world: each of Reddit, HN, Twitter, or various aggregation sites have their filter and regulars. But Twitter seems to have the widest net.

[galfarragem]

>Twitter is the de facto messaging platform.

Twitter is the best broadcasting platform. The true challenges are to control spam level and be able to display enough ads to monetise it.

I'm a late adopter of twitter but if you know how to use it is a great tool: follow less than 20 accounts, info is still possible to digest and the number of ads is not enough to annoy you.

[cheetos]

This isn't true. I think you need to expand your horizons beyond the tech world :) I suspect if you ask someone outside of the tech world in the US, they'll tell you Facebook. Outside of the US: WhatsApp.

Twitter: 500M tweets per day https://about.twitter.com/company

WhatsApp: 13B messages per day http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/06/whatsapp-now-has-700m-user...

Facebook + FB Messenger - WhatsApp: ~30B messages per day http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/22/facebook-voip-not-facebook-...

[caractacus]

> Twitter is the de facto messaging platform

In what world?