It won't be hard to build competitors to Twitter—systems that do as much as it does but whose decentralized design ensures that they're not a single point of fa

It won't be hard to build competitors to Twitter—systems that do as much as it does but whose decentralized design ensures that they're not a single point of failure. For a given, plucked-from-thin-air definition of "hard", no, it's not hard. In the real world, yes, it's hard. I don't see why the fact that people rely on Twitter should mean that they need to be broken up or opened up or any such thing.