The original plan was that Twitter would be that first client, and I would've *loved* that, but Elon killed that straight dead. That entire company was frozen by the prolonged acquisition, and the agreement quickly ended when Elon took over. It was never going to happen.

That died many years prior, when Twitter closed the API and third-party clients went belly-up overnight

Now, imagine if we had dug in our heels and said "We're just the protocol guys. We don't ship apps." Where would this network be? Where would the *protocol* be? It would've been a terribly risky bet to expect other companies to reach the market while downstream of us