The Twitter Trap: Why Trying to Be Facebook Won't Work

As of Tuesday Twitter became a wannabe Facebook. Not just in the sense that its new image-filled feed looks a lot like the social network's timeline. No, it's that Twitter is becoming a restless innovator, piling on change after change, moving fast and breaking things

The difference between the social services is that Facebook restlessly innovates because that's the way it is: a company of hackers. It is profitable, has more than a billion users, and has nothing to prove. Twitter, however, is betraying more than a hint of desperation. Its user growth is behind schedule. It still isn't profitable, and it has an $11 billion IPO coming up Read more...