Blaine Cook used to talk this way. Then he "left" twitter, rumors saying it was (among other reasons less interesting but dreadfully predictable) because the ma

Blaine Cook used to talk this way. Then he "left" twitter, rumors saying it was (among other reasons less interesting but dreadfully predictable) because the management didn't want to try and make twitter a hybrid of a human-to-human and machine-to-machine network. Blaine even gave a really interesting presentation I remember watching on the subject, about how very challenging such a backplane is compared to a more simple human-human messaging network.