You know how people claim Bin Laden won the war on terror by making us give up civil liberties and get into multiple useless wars that cost trillions of dollars?

Facebook won the war on Twitter by making ludicrously large offers through proxy bidders on all of the well-established twitter clients. Twitter reacted by squelching third-party clients.

Twitter has never known how to innovate, but they used to be open enough to let "the crowd" do that for them. Now?