Interesting. I wonder what design they'll come up with. The thread links to a tweet from Moxie from a few months ago, which (along with some other tweets in the thread) is interesting to think about:
In theory they could keep using the native contact list and just stuff Signal usernames in there; iOS does have the APIs to do that, and I'd assume Android too.
I personally wouldn't find a lot of use for it because I have twitter DM's sent to my cell already. But people who don't hook their cell up to their twitter (or have multiple accounts) might find a use for it.
Something I have been looking for is a way to have any @myname mentions sent to me in a DM. Set up a service to do that and I'd be interested.
Elegant though it is, I don't think that idea will work; people who I don't "follow" can "message" me in Twitter by including my name in a posting. That doesn't work if I explicitly have to be polling their server to see anything they say.
Would be interesting to see an app that took a twitter list, sent a tweet out to those in it to authenticate with the service, and from there create 3 additional feeds based on "retweets_of_me" "retweeted_by_me" and "retweeted_to_me" -- the idea would be to concentrate the best tweets in one place regarding a set of twitter users.
https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1174047779267604480
In theory they could keep using the native contact list and just stuff Signal usernames in there; iOS does have the APIs to do that, and I'd assume Android too.
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