At the same time, there have been no core changes to Twitter in the last several years.
Is Twitter the only company in the Valley where every engineer isn't checking Hacker News every few hours!?
From my normal user perspective (not advertising, not a celebrity...) they've never been an internally innovative company - @mentions and retweets are community inventions, the best clients for niche, power, and general use have always been 3rd party, and after stumbling onto a private messaging hit they shot DMs behind the woodshed just before the world went wild for whatsapp and snapchat. The community continues to come up with interesting ideas, never to be implemented. There's no doubt Twitter has stellar engineers. It's strategy that needs to be externalized. A shame they've spoiled so many developer relationships.
I thought they just figured out a revolutionary code change that allows them to support messages over 140 characters! That's real progress...
They're all too busy passing joints and/or bongs around to really care about HN or about their product. :-)
Peter Thiel: Twitter Executives 'Probably'
Smoke Too Much Pot, And That's Why It's A
'Horribly Mismanaged Company'