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I would have sold, at any time twitter could basically undermine his business, actually the more successful it becomes the more likely twitter would be to integrate it.

To wit, Twitter switched the default URL shortener from tinyurl to bit.ly, and now bit.ly is the largest URL shortener on Twitter.

This is what happens when your business is a commodity (and you're not the one who commoditized it).

Twitter is almost guaranteed not to go into photo sharing. They've had tons of opportunity to add in media services but they clearly aren't interested.

My thought as well

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