Almost everyday. I don't think Twitter can't, or doesn't want to. It's how much hyperlocal Twitter is for most parts of this world than Google. I am from a cit

Almost everyday. I don't think Twitter can't, or doesn't want to. It's how much hyperlocal Twitter is for most parts of this world than Google. I am from a city in India where Twitter adoption is probably the highest in India and I guess at a decent ranking on Global level - at least by sheer numbers if nothing else :). But when I go to my village or those small towns nearby - there are no Twitter users but almost everyone who has a mobile phone and an Internet connection and wants to use it, they start with these places and usually stick: WhatsApp, Google, Facebook. Not necessarily in the same order. It's not like Google wants an open web, Google doesn't want anyone else to have their own closed web. I will start with as petty (if you call it so) as closing Google Chat to external XMPP and making it an intense pain to use a Google Service w/o a Gmail a/c. Until very recently I didn't know https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail existed. Tying everything to a Gmail, Plus, or that X service (which might as well be deprioritized or shut down in a year or so) account is not really going for an open web.