Telephone providers are neutral—they don’t disconnect clients because they don’t like what people are talking about with each other. If they did, we’d have the same kind of outrage.
alt-Twitter aps are sort of possible, TweetDeck is one example (they eventually bought it).
But such aps don’t solve the main problem: if Twitter decides to kick somebody out, you won’t see his tweets in other apps as well.
Telephone providers are neutral—they don’t disconnect clients because they don’t like what people are talking about with each other. If they did, we’d have the same kind of outrage.
alt-Twitter aps are sort of possible, TweetDeck is one example (they eventually bought it).
But such aps don’t solve the main problem: if Twitter decides to kick somebody out, you won’t see his tweets in other apps as well.
Yeah, this would need an entire ecosystem of applications:
Twitter
alt-Twitter
multi-Twitter client
an archiving service that you could set up to make backups of all your tweets, regularly verify their existence, and repost them when deleted
We don’t even have the second step yet.