Comment Possible Prior Art dated 2001: Miski (Score 1) 325
In http://www.1729.com/blog/PossiblePriorArtForKootolPatentDated2001.html I examine the relationship between the Kootol patent, Twitter, and my unimplemented Miski system which is (or could have been) similar in many ways to how Twitter actually works. http://web.archive.org/web/20010223204516/miski.sourceforge.net/miski-white-paper.html is a copy of the description of Miski captured 23 Feb 2001 on Wayback.