Their road map and this strategy cements the opinion that Twitter is a media company and not a social-networking platform. The question each user of Twitter no

Their road map and this strategy cements the opinion that Twitter is a media company and not a social-networking platform. The question each user of Twitter now has to ask themselves, how and why they are using Twitter on the daily basis. As a business itself, Twitter is clearly providing an outlook into what it expects its user community to be, i.e, the users are the clear product to be sold to Twitter's customers and clients. The old model of selling Ads to the free-users, no longer works. The free-users clearly need to be sold to the clients and customers as well. So if you are a free-user as a business yourself, than you are in a good company at Twitter. If you are a free-user as a consumer (consuming content generated by others) than you are a product and you have to be ready to be sold. But if you are a free-user only trying to have social-conversation with friends and strangers, than you are an idiot interfering in other people's business. There is nothing negative here, it just all makes sense.