Twister

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Title

Twister

Subject

Social media; Cell phones; Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks); Open source software

Description

Twister is a peer-to-peer microblogging service that can run on mobile devices or on desktop computers. Twister was created by computer scientist Miguel Freitas after the Free Pass movement in Brazil.

Creator

Miguel Freitas

Source

http://twister.net.co/

Date

2015

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Identifier

http://twister.net.co/

Collection Items

Twister | Initial Page
After installing Twister on a desktop computer, this is the first screen the user sees. The page contains the user name and avatar, number of posts, followers, and who the user is following, and the top trending tags. It does let you know that you…

Twister | Following
On this screen, the user can decide how to follow another Twister user. There are two methods: publicly follow and privately. Public following is visible to any Twister user; private following is not.

Twister | Promoted Posts
Because Twister is a peer-to-peer system, it relies on clients' computers to power the network. This is done on a volunteer basis, since doing so is CPU-intensive. In exchange for generating blocks, users can post advertisements, or "Promoted Posts."
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