You could emulate pretty much all of twitter, with IRC. Just setup a channel to be your 'public posts'. When someone follows you, they just join your channel. H

You could emulate pretty much all of twitter, with IRC. Just setup a channel to be your 'public posts'. When someone follows you, they just join your channel. Hashtags are just poor mans channels, direct messages obviously... In short, I think it'd be far easier to emulate twitter with IRC, than emulate IRC on twitter.