Bitter Over Twitter

Funny the way they stepped in this just after the SOPA dust-up:

Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.

Of course, it's not easy being a freedom-loving company that operates in a lot of freedom-hating countries. You get caught in the crossfire between the people, who want to be able to speak, and the censors, who want to be able to silence the speakers.

Now the people are threatening Twitter boycotts.

If you're a Twitter exec, one of the things that can keep you up at night is the ability of your customer base to desert you at any time. Competing platforms exist. Everyone uses Twitter partly because that's what everybody uses. It's popular partly because it's popular. 

That sort of thing can change overnight.
That sort of thought gives the bosses a fright.