It seems unsuitable for coordinating mass protests to me, because it&#x27;s a single point of failure.  In many countries, the government controls all Internet access, so blocking Twitter would be relatively easy.  Sure, people can use Tor, but will enough people have it when Twitter gets blocked?<p>Seems like what&#x27;s really &quot;needed&quot; is a distributed Twitter-like platform, using a DHT or something.  Keep it small and simple enough, and a client could run on many devices 24&#x2F;7, updating every a few times an hour, or more if the user&#x27;s actively using it.<p>User identity might be the hard part, because a long hash isn&#x27;t very human-friendly.  But perhaps that could be solved by a centralized directory authority mapping user ID hashes to Twitter-like usernames.  The mappings could be cached by clients in case the directory went down or got blocked.  Sort of like how PGP keyservers work, letting clients get keys when they need them and add them to their local keyring.