I'll leave aside the comparisons to tent.io, app.net, StatusNet, and many other services... Considering that most Twitter users seem quite comfortable with pub

I'll leave aside the comparisons to tent.io, app.net, StatusNet, and many other services... Considering that most Twitter users seem quite comfortable with publishing their posts for all to see, marketing a Twitter competitor as a post-Snowden measure seems somewhat opportunistic to me, especially when there are many other benefits to decentralized/open Twitter replacements.