2013/12/26 by Miguel Freitas, Freitas, Miguel · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Caching and Content Delivery #Computer science #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Data science #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Internet privacy #Microblogging #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies #Social media #World Wide Web #cs.CR #cs.NI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1312.7152
arxiv created 2013/12/26 · openalex publication_date 2013/12/26 · arxiv updated 2013/12/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper proposes a new microblogging architecture based on peer-to-peer networks overlays. The proposed platform is comprised of three mostly independent overlay networks. The first provides distributed user registration and authentication and is based on the Bitcoin protocol. The second one is a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) overlay network providing key/value storage for user resources and tracker location for the third network. The last network is a collection of possibly disjoint "swarms" of followers, based on the Bittorrent protocol, which can be used for efficient near-instant notification delivery to many users. By leveraging from existing and proven technologies, twister provides a new microblogging platform offering security, scalability and privacy features. A mechanism provides incentive for entities that contribute processing time to run the user registration network, rewarding such entities with the privilege of sending a single unsolicited ("promoted") message to the entire network. The number of unsolicited messages per day is defined in order to not upset users.