To me, Twitter never really was much of a product per se. It's mechanics are so simple that it seems more like an enormous append-only log. I suspect they'd be

To me, Twitter never really was much of a product per se. It's mechanics are so simple that it seems more like an enormous append-only log. I suspect they'd be doing much better if they had an ecosystem of clients, most of which would be better than the Twitter app only because they couldn't be any lamer, and focused on the platform as a global messaging plane.