"We asked technology journalist Robert Scoble what he thought of the dilemma and his opinion was pretty clear. "If Twitter wants to be a platform they have to behave like a platform," he said. "Don't be king-makers, let the marketplace choose the winners. If they are going to say nobody should study the data because we're going to sell that, that's not being a platform. Twitter tries to pick the winners and it pisses me off. They admit that they are king-makers. All that does is make everyone vote against them and hope a competitor comes around." - Micah Wittman

:) - Micah Wittman

And he's right. They want to have their TweetCake and eat it too. - Micah Wittman

I thought Scoble's quote was the money quote, hands down. Called Twitter out for wanting all the control while they swear they don't. - Karoli

And surprise, surprise: tweetcake.com is already registered (indeed, you'll see that most famous stock image girl parking page). - Micah Wittman

sounds like he's bout to do another one of his bi-polar switcheroos - sofarsoShawn