An Interview with Evan Prodromou, the Developer Behind the Open Source Twitter Clone
The author of Laconica, an open source tool that lets anyone set up their own Twitter clone, discusses the technical challenges of microblogging and why it's not a fad.
by Howard Wen
November 19, 2008
Programmer and self-described internet entrepreneur Evan Prodromou has been involved in starting open source and open
content projects. His best-known is Wikitravel, a Wiki site for collaboratively edited travel guides.
Indenti.ca, his current project, is his attempt to develop a free
network service using shared, open data. But to the uninitiated, the site and service look—and function
very much—like a clone of Twitter. The big difference is that the software running Indenti.ca, which Prodromou
has also been developing, Laconica, is free and open source. People can copy the code and use it on their own servers.
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