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Re:Twitter Could Have Become a Protocol by ainot on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:43AM (#12891897)
It was, they called it IRC.
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Re:Twitter Could Have Become a Protocol by Torgo on Monday November 07, 2016 @12:32PM (#12892911)
As far as I can tell, the biggest users of IRC in this fashion have been malware and bitcoin (I think bitcoin daemon finally removed this method of peer discovery.)
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