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 was an airport terminal: a public-private partnership, subsidized by taxes and advertising dollars, to shuttle various constituencies back and forth from their stable destination.
The want-give nature of users is what made the product valuable to brands seeking audiences for their goods and services.
David Slack
Coach Pāṇini ®