The whole idea of the town square is that it belongs to the town. No one should be able to buy it. And honestly, they can’t.

Twitter isn’t really the town square, any more than Facebook is or MySpace was.

We are the town square. It goes where we go. No one can buy that.

@slack2thefuture Twitter is not a town square, but a private shopping mall.

Just like Facebook and MySpace, when one becomes more popular, an older one gets boarded up and forgotten.