Where are they going to go? Back to email, IRC, or Blogspot? I doubt it. To Twitter's cheaper competitors? How are they going to stay in business? I actually d

Where are they going to go? Back to email, IRC, or Blogspot? I doubt it. To Twitter's cheaper competitors? How are they going to stay in business? I actually don't use Twitter at all because for me Tumblr does far more, and it does it more effectively. (Tumblr actually has a Twitter client now.) There are a lot of other companies that do what Twitter does. Friendfeed, Jaiku are the two that come fastest to mind. I'm certain Twitter won't die, because there are a lot of options open to them. Monetization directly is not their best option, though. They've been free for too long for that to easily work.