Thanks to @hgilchrist, I found out about a way to setup your own Twitter
(yes, bring distraction and powerful networking in house) using Laconica.

Laconica is an open source microblogging tool written in PHP. All data
is stored in a MySQL database. Laconica was created as a direct response
of a need to create an open source, distributed alternative to Twitter.
It is used by the identi.ca microblogging service, which is based
closely on Twitter’s service.

Laconica supports OpenID for logins and is designed to apply a Creative
Commons license to all the traffic that it carries. It’s also built to
support the OpenMicroBlogging protocol so it can address scalability
issues by federating together multiple autonomous servers.

The underpinnings of Laconica include PHP, PEAR, and XMPP. The source
can be checked using Darcs. An unofficial Google Code mirror also
exists, which can be accessed using Subversion. This is a read-only copy
of the source code.
Source: Laconica
Open Source Software Project Information

More info here about getting the
software.

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