Last week, I saw a great post on Hacker News showing off a simple plain text twitter clone. The idea was that you pointed your client at plain text files hosted by your friends. To write a new post, you append a new line to the file on your webserver. To read your friends&#x27; posts, you get all their URLs and look for new lines. While it was simple and easy to implement for people hosting their own servers,
it would be a hassle for many people, myself included, to set up.