“It’s a very dangerous network because it’s all centralized,” he said, “not only on a technological level, where it goes through one set
of servers — but it also goes through one set of business interests
that’s anything but transparent.”
Danger may sound a bit overzealous for a Web service that barely
existed two years ago, but for a media landscape in the middle of a
profound shift, two years can be the span between eras.
Twitter is becoming a major source for news, commerce and free
expression and, as with a free press itself, defenders don’t want a few
profit-motivated individuals making all the decisions about how it
should evolve.
Like Facebook and YouTube before it, Twitter is now transitioning from
a freely available, much-loved Web service to a well-funded business
venture looking to cash in on the audience and cachet it built in its
freewheeling early days.
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