I feel like making a service where people can post public 140 character messages, and other people can follow them, and thats the entire app, and call it twitter classic.
Hm. Spin it up under a non-profit, create or build upon an open protocol. Appeal to the folks who think the Internet would be better off with something twitter-like but as kind-of a public service, and more open.
If you do allow responses/conversations, allow it only between users who follow one another. But maybe just don't allow it at all.
[EDIT] actually, if anyone's thinking about doing this and wants to chat... email's in my profile.
How's it spam? I select people/accounts I want to follow, and tweets from them show up in chronological order in my timeline. Sounds brilliant, someone should get on that!
If you do allow responses/conversations, allow it only between users who follow one another. But maybe just don't allow it at all.
[EDIT] actually, if anyone's thinking about doing this and wants to chat... email's in my profile.