Chatting at the moment, seems like a nice and useful tool. There are some problems (people not being able to speak by default before being followed by the chann

Chatting at the moment, seems like a nice and useful tool. There are some problems (people not being able to speak by default before being followed by the channel creator), which I've already reported to the developer. For me (been IRCing for 15yrs), this is different from both ad-hoc webchats and IRC. It's better integrated into Twitter experience than your typical webchat. If you're a Twitter user and would like chat-like capability, you don't need to register, invite your followers over, etc (technically, you do need to do all of that, but it uses Twitter auth & profiles, so it's like an extension of twitter). On that point, maybe it'd be great to provide plugins/scripts for other clients (see Embedly's Parrotfish) to instantly create & invite someone to a room from inside your Twitter (the official web, or some other) client; ie. a shortcut for creating the room and copypasting the url. EDIT: I don't think it'd ever be a replacement for IRC, but neither do I think it should. I like the "IRC for Twitter" niche (how about "IRC for Facebook?").