Fun Rationalizations:
- New Twitter was an awful decision and represented poor judgment. Better product intuition will lead to more usage of the Twitter platform. If you wish to refute this then you must cite relative statistics of social engagement that are better proxies than growth and uniques: one challenge I invite is for someone in the know to contrast Time on Site for Facebook & clients vs. Time on Site for Twitter & clients (vs. potential engagement on Twitter platform).
- An ally of your enemy is not your friend. This move will create cultural stability and reduce confusion.
- Jack has the potential to create an incredible alliance between Twitter and Square, ushering in the new payment protocol, ready to fully embrace a technology like Bitcoin when the moment becomes appropriate.
- Twitter has potential to be the ultimate payment protocol platform because it maps exactly relations between leaders and followers. Money is a metric of social value; so is the leader/follower dichotomy ("Following" people on Twitter, ReTweeting to signal alliance [the same function as laughing], etc. [I don't really know what I'm talking about.]).