[dutchflyboy]

Well, all the dutch HN readers will agree it would be "Etter".

But I personnaly don't think this would change much. For me there are two categories of information: private and public. For the private information email is the only solution and for the public solution I have my personal website. People who don't have their own website/blog won't care on who's server the messages are.

* EDIT * I was just thinking, isn't this what sites like blogger are about? You can make a page where you blog, several people can follow you, and they can reply.

[sirsean]

So ... why do people use Twitter, when blogs already existed?

[dutchflyboy]

What I mean is that most people who use twitter don't care at all whether the messages are on their own server or on a server owned by some company.

[sirsean]

The same is true of most people who use email, but email still wouldn't have become as widespread as it is today if it weren't interoperable with other email servers.