Twitter is public by design, so it makes a lot more sense. By comparison, Google's data of my searches and Facebook's data of me and my friends is much more in

Twitter is public by design, so it makes a lot more sense. By comparison, Google's data of my searches and Facebook's data of me and my friends is much more intimate than Twitter's database of my tweets. Ryan Singer nails the distinction here: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2618-twitters-ux-separate-the-hits-from-the-geekhacks http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2618-twitters-ux-separate-the... "Public by default is better than public-by-surprise."