I initially saw Twitter as an inverted IRC, except you post a message to multiple hashtags (irc channels) instead of just one, or none at all, and you can view

I initially saw Twitter as an inverted IRC, except you post a message to multiple hashtags (irc channels) instead of just one, or none at all, and you can view all messages in all hashtags/channels at once, plus everyone’s direct posts outside of any hashtag/channel… or just one hashtag/channel. Maybe the next town square just uses irc as it’s backend. Might be an unpopular opinion: Kind of how slack started using irc as it’s back end and ultimately to be a more modern incarnation of an irc client (and no longer using irc as it’s backend)