Regarding the usage of lightning network for chat payments, isn't twitter going to be attempting a similar kind of experiment, potentially on a much larger scale and of course with a lot of folks who have the ability to use such lightning system and initially have no clue about either bitcoin or lightning for that matter?
https://www.coindesk.com/you-can-now-send-bitcoin-tips-over-lightning-on-twitterIt is a private project which requires users to install a Chrome extension. It allows users to tip others - similar to what we would like to introduce on LNchat. It won't affect one's ability to tweet unlike our idea of how posts and threads would have to be paid for.