You can't really have it both ways, though. Twitter wants to be the next big thing; they want to be mainstream. With that comes marketers and other people who's

You can't really have it both ways, though. Twitter wants to be the next big thing; they want to be mainstream. With that comes marketers and other people who's only intention is to use Twitter to make more money. I've grown to hate Twitter, but if it could make me more money, I'd be all over it again. Believe it or not, many people don't want to talk to their friends in weird, public ways via Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, etc. We want to use them for something productive... like making money.