Fairly obvious, I guess. It's always surprised me as well why no one has made Twitter into a protocol of sorts with a web app that you can host yourself instead

Fairly obvious, I guess. It's always surprised me as well why no one has made Twitter into a protocol of sorts with a web app that you can host yourself instead of a centralized service. (the reason I haven't done that myself is that I have absolutely zero interest in Twittering or Tweets or whatever that stuff is called)