I would just download headers and only pull the body for content I am interested in. Usenet doesn't have the same hierarchy as Twitter. One would not have to

I would just download headers and only pull the body for content I am interested in. Usenet doesn't have the same hierarchy as Twitter. One would not have to download all of twitter, just the sub-groups they are subscribed to. One could also filter what groups they want to pull down. alt.something.twitter.text-only.emotional-support-animals.fluffy-bunnies alt.something.twitter.text-only.checkmarked.public-figures alt.something.twitter.bin.sfw.memes The audience could optionally use some add-on in the news clients to validate things like twitter identities, validate checkmarks, etc... Another add-on to filter out what Twitter considers spam if you were so inclined, or maybe subscribe to a crowd-sourced spam filter. These addons could pull signed data from each respective usenet group. One could probably go as far as to make a Twitter Client that uses Usenet behind the scenes and communicates through a HTTPS gateway for VIP to avoid people needing firewall rules for NNTPS in corporate environments.