I once hit upon a P2P twitter-clone project. It thought and think the idea is great, but you still needed a twitter account for some reason, that was a bummer.

I once hit upon a P2P twitter-clone project. It thought and think the idea is great, but you still needed a twitter account for some reason, that was a bummer. So if someone comes with a P2P twitter clone, that would be something: - no advertising - no censoring (china!) - large cache of tweets stored for offline viewing - all kinds of additional services could connect, like history logs, searching, discovery, notifications. A drawback would be the lack of speed, as p2p networks have delays, obviously. But this could be overcome at least partly by making followers also p2p neighbors, me thinks.