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title: What makes Twitter Twitter?
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author: Matthias Kretschmann

date: 2012-07-07 08:18:58+00:00
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Couldn't agree more:

> People. 140-character messages. That’s Twitter.
>
> So simple. So powerful. So fragile.
>
> So leave it alone. We’re talking. Don’t interrupt.

But just rebuilding Twitter before it gets more "richer stories" and crammed by ads probably won't help: [We could build an open Twitter, but would anyone use it?](http://gigaom.com/2012/07/04/we-could-build-an-open-twitter-but-would-anyone-use-it/)