I think this is way more significant than many people think. Twitter scale information distribution is a hard problem, and tying the platform to a blockchain ma

I think this is way more significant than many people think. Twitter scale information distribution is a hard problem, and tying the platform to a blockchain makes the engineering side of this impossible. You'd want your blockchain to run independently from the social media platform. You could add the crypto layer to Mastodon, and by the time scale becomes an issue, you haven't irretrievably crippled yourself and you build it from there. Plus federation and so on. I would think scraping Twitter would come with legal hassle, so a lawsuit could be worse than any technicalities.