<sep/>provides complete information about the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), an open XML technology for presence and real-time communication developed by the Jabber open-source community<sep/>
"This article introduces this new concept and explains how to build a distributed event-based infrastructure for social networking. The example application that illustrate this article is a distributed Twitter-like microblogging platform."
I found XMPP a little hairy but generally functional (lots of peculiar client and server behavior to guess at). But this is actually an excellent idea: XMPP was *made* for Twitter—itself is just a generalization of IM.
<sep/>the Jabber open-source community. The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is an open XML technology for real-time communication, which powers a wide range of applications including instant<sep/>