[blankenship]

That makes sense to you (a web user who wants to use multiple platforms, and likely already does) but not to Twitter (a business whose financial interests are best realized the longer you stay within the walled garden of their product.) Twitter doesn’t want you to leave their ecosystem, so they’re considering changing the boundaries of the ecosystem.

[a_shane]

Which is all well and good, but when you take away too many of the features which make that ecosystem unique, there's less incentive to use it over anything else.

[wnevets]

perhaps but if that ecosystem is just like everyone else's, what's the point of staying?

[tw04]

They should just acquire twitlonger and be done with it.