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.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.ActivityPub is real-time pub/sub for the entire Web, something that Twitter could have been.https://w3c.github.io/activitypub/http://activitypub.rocks/