[crizzlenizzle]

> Twitter started as a protocol.

Can someone help me understand that? When and how did it start as a protocol?

[cammikebrown]

He might have meant that the “idea” of Twitter was originally a protocol.

[NateEag]

I don't have a source, but I have a nagging feeling that I once read that Twitter's original goal was to be a platform-independent away message.

If true, that's very much a protocol in intent, even if not in practice.