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 Yeah, in my opinion the public square can't be privately owned... that, or it's time to sit down at chain restaurant and strike up conversations with other folks there instead of ordering anything.