BTW, to be clear, I have no interest in working on twitter-like systems.

It's been like a prison to writers, we're stuck with this huge divide, with crap on both sides.

These things exist, they have a jumble of APIs and ways to integrate.

And we've been playing by the rules laid down by Twitter (ev, biz and jack) for 18 freaking years. That's enough.

This will never get sorted out until people realize it needs sorting out.

Not expecting much more to happen there.