Twitter: Everything Wrong with Humanity and the Internet in a Single Service
Why does Twitter exist? It showcases the absolute worst in humanity with very little real benefit. Its business model is straight out of South Park:
1. Give every clod a 144 (now 288!) character megaphone.
2. ???
3. Profit!
At what point to investors finally realize that there is no path to "monetization" and that they own a piece of the next MySpace? While other services are at least paying lip-service to addressing cyberbullying and propaganda distribution, Twitter is cautiously playing footsie. Why? Because most of the "problems" with Twitter are actually its features and are the reasons it is attractive for many people.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
