philip_dorrell·13 anni fa·discussRelevant prior art, publicly disclosed on or before February 2001, which quite explicitly includes the "follower/following" mechanic:(The blog article was written in relation to a different patent, but the prior art is most directly related to a Twitter-like service.)http://thinkinghard.com/blog/PossiblePriorArtForKootolPatent...http://web.archive.org/web/20010223204516/miski.sourceforge....
(The blog article was written in relation to a different patent, but the prior art is most directly related to a Twitter-like service.)
http://thinkinghard.com/blog/PossiblePriorArtForKootolPatent...
http://web.archive.org/web/20010223204516/miski.sourceforge....