Most modern day internet users have never heard of an IRC channel but the best way to describe it in relation to todays myspace,facebook and twitter sites is to say that IRC is CB radio and twtter is an Iphone in comparison. sure both CB radios are still used and IRC is still used as well by ever diminishing groups of people.  As technology marches on it’s easy to choose to move to a newer, faster, better? equipment or software but if there is a learning curve is the loss of productivity always worth it. it depends. look at this recent discovery out of some research into an unrelated botnet . turns out that the bot herder was actually using twitter as a means of sending commands to  download updates to infected computers. I’m sure there are others doing something like this and I’m sure it will be an interesting fight for Twitter to keep on top of the many facets of running such a flexible platform and still keep it from becoming a victim much like our old friend the IRC. you almost forgot about that didn’t you. well it’s alive in all 4 corners of the World Wide Web. it’s just go t a PR problem. it’s a lightweight fast, non-centralized means of communicating that works great if you are in a game with friends and don’t want aim,or msn, or one of the other big brother apps running on your pc.  like The recent case on twitter it can also be used for not so nice things.  I’ll leave it at that lest anyone get some ideas. bot control is already pretty well documented out there. so I don’t need to say much about it. besides a little bit of developer work on the problem and it’s less attractive to future crackers who would want to exploit twitter in the future.

I’m not suggesting that this Twitter  case is going to lead to problems for twitter as they seem like smart guys and are adapting to all the things that have been happening with such an open platform. so I give them kudos for that.  in the meantime get those discount codes on twitter or see what Ashton Kucher is up to… I sure hope so!

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