All-new "protocols" come along so rarely these days -- this one can't get past being conflated with "open source". - Brian Hendrickson

Bryan Woods asks if Twitter should sue Identi.ca and Plurk. What do you think? - Louis Gray

What money would they get? Neither are making money right now. And what for? - Jesse Stay from twhirl

@louis respectfully, why sue? no one is making money let them compete & increase user choice & experience - agree w @jesse - Scott Moskowitz

If economic conditions deteriorate, suing will become more common ... but I doubt there's a validity in this case (and I really dislike a lot of the existing 'completely baseless' lawsuits in general) - Charlie Anzman

@charlie lobbying is cheap - cheaper than litigation & far cheaper than R&D/ innovation ... inventors & innovators are an American treasure - heavily put-upon by those who should know better - Scott Moskowitz

"But a hard core group of users clings to Identi.ca's mission as an open, developer-friendly alternative to Twitter..." Absolutely. - Kevin Gamble

i've basically gone back to twitter ... its where the people are... still - jerobins

You have to have a legal basis to sue someone. Neither Identi.ca nor Plurk (nor any of the others) violate any of Twitter's copyrights and Twitter holds no patents that would be pertinent in a C&D action. IANAL, but it seems to me that they couldn't sue even if they really wanted to. - Toby DiPasquale

Twitter burnout will happen. I can't help but feel that it will go the way of MySpace. - Mike Lewis