On: Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard...

[weego]

Once you strip the perceptive differences from the UI isn't twitter just a bunch of chat rooms and private conversations that update less 'live' than you'd expect a chat room to do.

I wrote a toy twitter clone using a discord server as a data source and it worked pretty coherently

[apitman → weego]

Twitter has nothing to do with functionality and everything to do with scale/audience reach.