This is pretty much exactly how binary newsgroups got started. Not to be all "I thought of it first" but I had thought it would be funny to do something similar on Twitter.
>This is pretty much exactly how binary newsgroups got started.
Yeah minus the encryption (well that's not 100% true as you could post encrypted files and people do but it's less of a part of the "protocol" than it is in this example). The beauty of newsgroups is they are replicated to other NNTP servers. Distributed file stores fascinate me (I know this reddit protocol is not distributed or rather it's wholly owned by 1 entity even if the data is distributed across datacenters) and I'm very excited to see where things like IPFS [0], freenet [1], internet2 [2], etc turn out.
Woah, that'd be a lot of tweets. Even reddit with its 10000 char limit per comment has loads of comment trains if you want to store a sizable amount of info that way. With twitters 140 char limit, that would be a huge amount of tweets. You'd probably run the risk of being identified as a spammer if you send that many tweets at once...
