After another great climbing vacation (with two new summits climbed for the first time ) I’d like to post a quick update on latest twister developments… Users following our github repositories commits may have noticed that two cool new features…

New twister-core 0.9.29 fixes a long standing connectivity bug: sometimes twisterd failed to properly detect when the external IP changes. IP changes are relatively common, they may be due to a router reboot, ISP forcing an IP change, switching from…

We’ve just merged another great contribution by Сёма Мрачный (@tasty) for twister-html client: advanced language filtering support. This new feature may allow people to follow more users and display only the posts on language they understand. Given the heterogeneous twister community with…

A new VirtualBox image is available pre-configured with all utilities (android-sdk, ndk…) and dependencies (openssl, boost etc) needed to compile twisterd for Android. Grab it here: Ubuntu-12.04-LTS-amd64_twister-gitian-android.ova (2.2GB from Google Drive)

Thanks to the nice Open Build Service (OBS) provided by openSUSE we now have automatically built RPMS for the following distros: openSUSE 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2 and tumbleweed SLE 12 (SLE 11 boost too old) Fedora 20 (Fedora 18-19 have…

A new “business” model

Thanks to @thedod and @twisterio! Click here for Twister daily traffic.

0.9.28 has better enforcement of DHT upload rate limit for non-locally generated requests. the limit applies to: DHT replies, refreshes of stored items, checking for status/tracker and proxy server. local requests (eg. dhtgets from the UI) are excluded from this…

I’d like to share some thoughts on stuff i’d like to implement or improve in twister… Following the recent introduction of “getmentions” api in twister-core 0.9.27, i’d like to explore the possibilities for creating new user following “types”. Currently we…

Yes, twister is already decentralized. However there are two areas where we may improve twister to make it more resilient: DNS Seeders When twisterd is executed for the first time, it must locate some initial nodes to join the peer-to-peer…