Telephone providers are neutral - they don't disconnect clients because they don't like what people are talking about with each other. If they did, we'd have the same kind of outrage.
alt-Twitter aps are sort of possible, TweetDeck is one example (they eventually bought it).
But such aps don't solve the main problem: if Twitter decides to kick somebody out, you won't see his tweets in other apps as well.
Telephone providers are neutral - they don't disconnect clients because they don't like what people are talking about with each other. If they did, we'd have the same kind of outrage.
alt-Twitter aps are sort of possible, TweetDeck is one example (they eventually bought it).
But such aps don't solve the main problem: if Twitter decides to kick somebody out, you won't see his tweets in other apps as well.