The whole discourse about differing 'microblogging' sites, reminds me of the Instant messaging war.
Where different platforms kept adjusting their API to not be compatible.
Personally I was delighted to discover #Trillian back in the day, as I could be logged in to ICQ, MSM, AIM, Yahoo chat and IRC all via the one client.
I wonder if we will see something like that again.
Yes I know #Trillian still exists, but I stopped using it over a decade ago.