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February 20, 2011 03:39 am GMT
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This Is Business, Not Personal.
In Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 film The Godfather, there's a scene between Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) and Sonny Corleone (James Caan) that plays out like this:Tom: Your father wouldn't want to hear this, Sonny. This is business not personal.Sonny: They shoot my father and it's business, my ass!Tom: Even shooting your father was business not personal, Sonny!Events the past few days in the tech ecosystem have reminded me of this scene.As we've all heard by now, yesterday, Twitter made what seemed to be a quick and drastic decision to block a number of popular Twitter third-party clients, namely, UberTwitter and Twidroyd. Both of those, of course, are owned and operated by UberMedia, a company which is quickly buying up a significant part of the Twitter ecosystem " presumably to figure out a way to monetize it.
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