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Stop Arguing on Twitter. Use Speeqe.
By Simpson Chris | March 5, 2009
I’ve been waiting for a good opportunity to highlight Speeqe – a “disposable” or “instant” chat room you can create and invite anyone to join for an impromtu discussion. We covered another (not as good) one a few weeks ago.
I finally have my cause célèbre: last night I saw an update from a friend of mine expressing exasperation at the fact he got in a long political argument on Twitter.
“Hmmmm,” I wondered. “How do you argue politics in 140 characters or less?”
It turns out it’s not much fun. Here’s a screen shot. All these messages are @replies to the same person, and they continue on to the next page!
Blurred to protect the innocent.
Moral of the story?
Next time you start to get into a long discussion on Twitter, calmly invite your sparring partner or newly found mutual fan of Anton Maiden to Speeqe! You can even name your chat room antonmaiden.speeqe.com if you so desire.
Some highlights include:
- Built on a collection of open source software and software tools (which means it’s free, XMPP and Jabber are the technologies for you techies)
- Themable, with Inline images AND Inline youtube videos (SNAP)
- Embeddable – you can embed it on your site for an instant multi-user chat capabilities. Check out Buddycloud for an example.
What are you waiting for? Give it a try or check out their blog.
It’s developed by the masterminds at StanzIQ, who are also behind some other open source project: Strophe, Punjab, and Palaver.
*Full disclaimer: we’ve worked with a couple of the developers and regularly attend Kickin’ Chicken Fridays with them. What is Kickin’ Chicken Friday, you ask? It’s what comes after Zaxperience Thursdays, of course.
Topics: Misc. | 7 Comments »
March 5th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
[...] Stop Arguing on Twitter. Use Speeqe. I agree, keep the peace on twitter [...]
March 5th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
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March 6th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
1. Don’t use @ to converse, use DMs
2. Many apps allow you to send 255 characters in each DM–and you can read all those characters in almost any app (including the web interface)
March 6th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
@Twitter_Tips Better yet, dont use twitter at all.
Use http://identi.ca or something open and federated and can keep their site up and working.
March 6th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Some other things to note:
Posting speeqe rooms using http://bit.ly or other url shorteners works well.
Plus you can use Speeqe with identi.ca
Example:
http://www.speeqe.com/room/tofu@identichat.prosody.im/
March 7th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
I like how you can come back days or weeks later and it keeps the whole discussion still.
But I could not find a discussion going on at http://antonmaiden.speeqe.com like you said.
March 8th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Hi Arianna,
Thanks for the comment. I didn’t actually set anything up at antonmaiden.speeqe.com – just was my attempt at humor. : )
Feel free to be the first!