Twitter was never a business, at least Yahoo was at one point but which was frittered away. Twitter was a clever and powerful idea that could never make money,

Twitter was never a business, at least Yahoo was at one point but which was frittered away. Twitter was a clever and powerful idea that could never make money, or at least no one ever saw a way to do it. Of course a lot of folks made money on Twitter by selling it to investors and the public market but otherwise it's not a real business. Twitter should have been (and may become) one of those things like youtube that makes sense as part of another business.