Could recent Twitter refugees just cook up a new Twitter?

Most of you got a severance package, no? And AFAICT non-competes aren't legal in California.

So how about a server in Go, maybe starting with the old school character limit and no fancy stuff like video or images?

Throw it up on Github and see where you get in two weeks. If it looks decent enough then try running a Wikipedia-style donation run. Or make a funky new developer coop business. Or simply a regular business and battle it out publicly with your former boss!

Hell, you could start by limiting access only to the thousands of you who just got fired. People would probably pay just to get read access to watch you communicate over the service as you build it.

As a bonus, I'd be happy to test the Iphone app. (Thursday afternoons after 11 a.m. Eastern work well for me.)