Ok, um, this is not going to work. Half of the magic of Twitter is that it's a single service, so you can subscribe to anyone, pull anyones feed into yours, ret

Ok, um, this is not going to work. Half of the magic of Twitter is that it's a single service, so you can subscribe to anyone, pull anyones feed into yours, retweet, share, all that junk. People use twitter because other people use twitter. An open service doesn't solve that, it just makes things more complicated and worse. Wordpress works because it's not a network platform, it's a publishing one. Wordpress is inherently not a social network, it's a CMS. Sure, there are social bits, but it works well as an installable thing because you don't have to deal with issues like connecting or discovering other blogs. You can just install it, write content, and hit publish and boom, you're publishing on your own site on the net. The only people who see a problem with Twitter right now are devs, not users. All the "open twitter" projects are going to turn out the way of Diaspora, not Wordpress.