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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by JBiserkov on Sunday October 09, 2016 @03:56PM (#12673091)
According to Paul Graham (April 2009):

>[Twitter] is a new messaging protocol, where you don't specify the recipients. New protocols are rare. Or more precisely, new protocols that take off are. There are only a handful of commonly used ones: TCP/IP (the Internet), SMTP (email), HTTP (the web), and so on. So any new protocol is a big deal. But Twitter is a protocol owned by a private company. That's even rarer.

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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by mparr4 on Sunday October 09, 2016 @06:02PM (#12673769)
It's a shame that, instead of seeing themselves as a protocol, twitter decided they were another "P" word: platform.

I think Twitter could have become ubiquitous, like Facebook or email, had it not gone the platform route and started to shut down third party apps. But then, how do you make money as a protocol?

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