I don't think the comment is really about microblogs. It's about the cycle of some product becoming popular, adding features, becoming complicated, being compet

I don't think the comment is really about microblogs. It's about the cycle of some product becoming popular, adding features, becoming complicated, being competed against by newcomers that say "at least 80% of people don't need 80% of this stuff" and come up with something much simpler that gets the job done, adding features, becoming complicated. That's not necessarily bad. I don't think byrneseyeview is suggesting this is something you shouldn't do, just observing patterns.