Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media
They should at the very least evaluate ActivityPub. It's a W3C standard that reached "Recommended" status almost two years ago, is flexible enough for future use-cases, and already has multiple implementations like Mastodon.<p>In fact, any app can be made to act as a source, sink or both of ActivityPub events. I recently added ActivityPub support to learnawesome.org so that reviews can be consumed in any ActivityPub client. Implementation was easy and the data model is quite easy to understand.<p>ActivityPub is real-time pub/sub for the entire Web, something that Twitter could have been.<p><a href="https://w3c.github.io/activitypub/" rel="nofollow">https://w3c.github.io/activitypub/</a><p><a href="http://activitypub.rocks/" rel="nofollow">http://activitypub.rocks/</a>