The threaded view is really just a nice bonus. The core idea is that the microblogging paradigm is fundamentally different from traditional email and has more in common with the sort of threads that we host here on the empeg board.

You say something. Your friends see it. They respond and can see each other.

Which leads me to wonder when we're going to start seeing the integration/transmogrification of phpBB and friends into microblogging sources that integrate with everything else.

Nevermind whether I want my non-empeg friends stumbling into my musings over here and being able chime in. One of the strangest features of Facebook, to me, is watching friends of mine, who otherwise would never meet, get into arguments in the threads started by my Facebook posts.