I mean, to ask the question is to answer it.

Why do the clients all have timestamp order?

Because Twitter does.

Why do we have follows?

Because Twitter does.

Why do we have mutes?

Because Twitter does.

Why are we against deletes?

Because we've seen people try to rewrite history on Twitter.

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If every decision you make is based upon "do Twitter better", you will end up with 50 variations of Twitter and little else.

But we want the OtherStuff.