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 exactly. those were more like shopping malls, privately owned and with their own interests at the core and us allowed in as long as we were providing them with potential for revenue.