You mean besides the fact that Twitter service is unreliable? :>P - Larry Hawes

I'm glad this is being pointed out. I've gone from a guy who wanted Twitter to succeed when many were enjoying their many tech failures... to someone who is now repulsed by the the hyper-valuation of the service, data and company in general. Today, Twitter looks like a huge scam. And who will get scammed by Twitter? Any company who signs a business contract with them. In particular, CNN and other high-profile brands that have given Twitter massive amounts of free marketing. Twitter is like an insanely popular rock band with no talent. You know what I mean. I think that I have seen the light here. And have started to say that I think Twitter might be the next Friendster. Here is a blog post I put up recently that touches on some of this thinking... http://vocal.ly/pgg Sull - sull from FriendFeed MT Plugin

We can't assume that Google and Bing won't innovate relating to how they would handle the firehose from Twitter. I think Twitter can benefit from some heavy duty analytics (which Bing and Google have the scale to accomplish). It's a brilliant strategy- if anyone can monetize the "search" aspect of Twitter with scale, that's probably Bing and Google. But I agree with RWW that I won't be expecting a big down payment for this deal- rather a ramp-up driven approach where it could get big gradually, over time. - William Mougayar from FriendFeed MT Plugin