What If Microsoft Developed Twitter

• Every tweet would be a maximum of 140 characters, but would need to download a 2Mb message, containing various XML markups and a ton of security services.
• Add to that encryption for privacy concerns, authentication, server signatures, etc.
• Oh, and it will require Silverlight, .NET, ActiveX, and Internet Explorer 8 to read, of course.
• They would have come up with a new SDK technology once a year
• You would have to sign an lengthy  EULA for each tweet you send out
• You know, saying that the tweet you send is up to you, no one else is responsible for it, even if it kills your machine, or the machine of the people receiving it.
• You would have to get used to “the blue tweet of death”

• You couldn’t use Twitter on your Mac
• The twitter URL would have been like 

            " http://www.twitter.com/askdjfha;sdkjfh@#$@#$,msdfasdf.asp/read "

• Each upgrade (and many of the weekly security patches) would reset all your options to the defaults.
• Your screen would go black and a window would pop up asking if you’re really really sure you want to send each and every message. “No really, are you sure?”
• You’d be able to buy Twitter Pro which allows for 280 characters

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