I was digging around and found this nifty blog for building your own Twitter alternative. It seems like a great topic for discussion.

Does anyone have any questions about building a Twitter alternative?

Does anyone have any tips?

A few ideas:

1. Change your post feed character limit setting to match the Twitter limit.

2. Enable hashtags in the activity feed settings linked above.

Those are just two to start out with. I'm sure we can come up with more. :)