BTW, although this is slightly off topic here: I'd like to encourage those who (for whatever reason) chose twitter for microblogging to at least crosspost to an open network (like those built upon status.net). - There's good reasons why some of us are reluctant to follow the piper too deep into the facebook/twitter/-wood.

I have no problems simply reading both hashtag-searches and peoples tweets on twitter (even though I have no account there), but selectively following people in one stream becomes easier if the tweets are available in the open. Just an idea.