Greg re "why this has not been covered by any of the major IT news outlets, whereas they have spoken to length about the ascension of the company." I think that's simply because they dropped off everybody's radar for a while, however a site like RWW picks up a lot of news from other blogs - hence I found out about it via you. Happens a lot in the tech blog world anyway. Re the stats, my reading is that Compete stats dropped 85% odd due to Google indexing issue. So I *think* what Twine is saying is that they dropped 20-25% in actual PV (which they monitor) but they're attributing the rest to Google issues. I haven't seen Twine's official stats, but I'm not sure I really need to. The bottom line is that they're struggling even with 20-25% dip, so version 2 is 'put up or shut up' in product market terms. - Richard from FriendFeed MT Plugin

From the beginning I wondered what 'semantic' [the magic word back in 2007] consisted in. I kept and maintained an account on Twine until I realized it was nothing more than any other online bookmarking website. As it failed to allow true/easy cross-posting I killed the account after several attempts at aggregating its content on Friendfeed [nail on the coffin there]. Twine is declining? That I don't really wonder why. - lelapin from FriendFeed MT Plugin