I know it is not an apples to apples argument, but it makes you think. Since when is a private company required to modify its product to become some sort of public service. Google is not required to index and display results of everything and every website; the same theory goes for any other company in any industry.

Twitter’s data is in Google’s results and follows the ranking algorithm for placement like everything else. The crawl rate is so high because of the amount of data; it is odd way to start an argument as I am sure it crawl Facebook with the same veracity.

Costolo can be upset, but he needs to tone it down and let it go. He is starting to sound desperate.

Now that they have messed up Tweetdeck after buying it, I have been influenced to conclude, like my smart sister, that Twitter is only a tool to keep up with happening events as they happen. Too much scrolls by, unless you devote your consciousness to Twitter’s stream during your entire waking hours…and even them you will miss a flood of tweets while you sleep.

Twitter is like a unilateral chat room, where you can follow celebrities and newsmakers and reporters unless you get blocked; but when they made it hard to comment on big boys’ and girls’ idiotic statements, to your own followers, they destroyed a key incentive to play their game. Not to mention having to adjust the tools able to access them, in order to get an ad-supported business model going to replace the venture capital they must have been feeding their faces on for too long now.

‘value exchange’ sounds like a unconsummated quid pro quo so they took their respective balls and went home