Perfect timing!
Friday, August 15, 2008 by Dave Winer.
I just read this interesting post on Louis Gray's blog. 
Essentially now any Twitter client can now associate another post as a reply to another existing post. This means that Twhirl or TweetDeck can allow a user to post a normal status update, and provide a "+" sign underneath and a new post can be appended as a reply to the previous post.
Hmmm. Where have I seen that before?
Oh yeah! Sounds like an outliner. 
Update: I've got something working with a test account. You can actually walk the threading structure in the browser. Nice!
Here's what the threading looks like in the outliner.
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