[andrewmwatson]

Very good writeup, Chad. I too have, apparently, flunked Silicon Valley up to this point. It's really great that you've been relentlessly pursuing it, though.

I had the same reaction about Chirp. I started to get the feeling from Twitter around the time of Chirp.

I was always wary of building apps that are completely dependent on someone else's platform to live and, indeed, my own startup was dealt a serious setback by the release of OpenVBX. So my fears were valid, after all.

My own Twitter usage has changed quite a bit lately, as well. I've given up on keeping up with what's going on. I check it less and less each day it seems. I had an idea this weekend about using small GroupMe groups to share ideas instead of Twitter because I could segment people better that way...

Anyway, It will be interesting to see what Twitter looks like in a few years...