I think this is just more evidence that Twitter shouldn't have been a company. I'm not saying that Twitter shouldn't exist or that it's not a valuable service,

I think this is just more evidence that Twitter shouldn't have been a company. I'm not saying that Twitter shouldn't exist or that it's not a valuable service, just that Twitter, Inc. is the wrong model for what Twitter is. Twitter should've been like email: an open, interoperable standard where ISPs and other companies operate Twitter servers that federate with each other. Actually, Usenet is an even better comparison, as Twitter serves the same role in the 2010s that Usenet did in the 1990s. Back in the day, every ISP had an NNTP server, as did other companies like Forte and DejaNews/Google. Twitter should have used that model.