Their strategy to handle this business risk was to ...accept it? It seems kind of shortsighted given twitter has ALREADY did a version of this to a bunch of oth

Their strategy to handle this business risk was to ...accept it? It seems kind of shortsighted given twitter has ALREADY did a version of this to a bunch of other companies/apps. At it's core, what twitter provides is no big deal. The ability to post 140 chars. They could have been quietly funding an open twitter protocol (it will happen eventually) but they chose to keep their heads in the sand.