Twitter is making headlines these days. With Sheen gaining followers on twitter as fast as he’s losing television advertising dollars and the so called dickbar they recently added to promote paid tweets, people are talking about Twitter wherever you go. (And, by writing this post, I guess that includes the Guru College) What gets me is that Twitter really doesn’t have a long term strategy that I can see. They provide a service that is free to sign up for, free to use, and a lot of people use very heavily. I can’t imagine their server bills are low. There’s no easy way to monetize the service without pissing a lot of people off, and it’s not like it’s a hard service to replicate if you can handle the load.

So, to combat this… Twitter tells us they are going to limit what 3rd party clients can and can’t do. Which makes a lot of sense – make your developers angry or distrustful so they won’t develop for your platform anymore, and you can then… sell… more… paid tweets? Why does this sound like “and Step #3: Profit” to me?