[mijustin]

This is what the folks at https://tent.io were trying to do: create a messaging protocol that was decentralized (like email).

The problem is that it's hard to compete with momentum. People use Twitter because it's where all their friends, followers, and interesting people to follow are.

If you're going to create an alternative, it has to be able to hit critical mass.

[angry-hacker]

Don't forget the free (?) advertising media gives them. Well media is who using it in the first place of course, but it's strange twitter is not able to leverage that to go more mainstream.

It's an echo chamber for journalists and activists. Normal people don't use twitter either, they use fb, instagram, snapchat.