Twitter as a protocol is pretty stupid. It's trivial. Also, as a messaging protocol, it sucks. 140 characters? :/ There's far better more widely used communica

Twitter as a protocol is pretty stupid. It's trivial. Also, as a messaging protocol, it sucks. 140 characters? :/ There's far better more widely used communication protocols out there, and new ones being made all the time. Difference is Twitter has a fantastic hype machine.