[jsilence]

If you use an API, you are bound to the decisions of the one single entity that is making the API available.

An open protocol on the other hand can be implemented by anyone who is willing to provide the service.

An API is an indicator for a walled garden. In this case two walled gardens are fighting for their share of the pie.

Instead of Twitter we should be using status.net, running our own instances of it. Decentralized just like email.