Twitter seems to have some design flaws which may not have included the possibility of security concerns in its innocence.
A potential security concern is the automatic url shortening that twitter users use to send links to each other , you don’t know where you are being re directed to until you are there.
Identity theft is another concern – twitter users almost revel in sheer joy of opening up with un protected tweets.
A possible solution is having two twitter streams – one protected and personal while the other is for personal branding and promoting yourself.
This risk is enhanced with the sheer explosion of auto bots that feed off rss,automatically follow ,automatically send messages that say hello thanks for joining me. How do you know who the other person is ?
Inability to segment your followers into people I want to share this stuff with and people I don’t want to share this tweet with is thus a data concern ( unlike Facebook which does have multiple privacy levels for potential contacts)
I refuse to recognize that there is a recession going on.
The sheer explosion of twitter app developers see www.twitter.com/downloads (just like the now not so chic Face Book application bubble) means that the techie world at least refuses to recognize the recession.
Innovation ,creative destruction and the invisible hand of economics are still working even if the CEOs and Politicians have frozen.
Application developing bubbles are better than real estate bubbles as long as venture capitalists and website owners remember 2001 (Nasdaq)
On the 1 Billion refused by Twitter reportedly –The inability of Twitter to upload, share pictures, share videos without diverting and losing traffic means they better start think slivers of stock for funding even if they don’t want to sell the whole company yet.
DECISION STATS 