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Twitter was too busy navel gazing and pushing PR about how they had the ability to incite revolutions.

They were afraid to grow beyond tweets. In life you need to grow or die. Ten years from now, they'll be fondly remembered as the AOL Instant Messenger of the 2010s.



Infinite growth is infeasible. Perhaps Twitter will be one of the few tech companies that will stabilize. Or get killed by a competitor.


>>In life you need to grow or die.

Says who? Plenty of businesses reach a certain size and maintain healthy levels of profitability over the long term.

"Grow or die" only holds true if you receive venture capital.


Not just grow in terms of dollars, grow in function and purpose.

If someone knocked you on the head in 2011 and you woke up today and logged into Twitter, you'd find that little has changed.


So what?


I think that is being unfair to AIM, which was vastly more useful at the time.




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