I think it's important to replace Twitter with an open protocol if Twitter as a platform has value. I would argue that it doesn't. Twitter, in the social sens

I think it's important to replace Twitter with an open protocol if Twitter as a platform has value. I would argue that it doesn't. Twitter, in the social sense, has value for users on both sides as a corral of content consumers and producers. Twitter, in the technical sense, offers very little - the only special consideration is that I can send an SMS message from my phone and it will appear on a website, but there are many other services that provide this functionality. The reason I use Twitter is that it's free.