[waterlesscloud]

Is Twitter one of the best run companies ever?

I accept I'm probably wrong, but my feeling is that Twitter is on the wrong course. Not that they won't be successful in the direction that they're heading, just that they won't be nearly as successful as they could have been. It feels to me like they've lost track of their central appeal.

Yeah, I know that's vague and not much to hang onto. I should probably try to figure out what I really mean by it.

[grinich]

They've probably just changed focus for a while.

Remember when Google was run by Eric Schmidt? Different vibe, but the company needed it at that stage.

I don't think Twitter has necessarily closed any of the doors of earlier opportunities. If you think about them on the scale of IBM/HP/Apple, it's still early.

[gaius]

That was the equivalent of an Oscar "I'd like to thank God, and my mom, and my dog..." speech. Twitter had just made him (another) fortune!