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Citations or evidence required for your claims that Twatter is absolutely one of the best around.

This is one of the more tiresome class of comment on HN. The parent was self-evidently just an opinion.

> All you're doing is placing software engineering behind all of the classes of engineering.

Is doing so wrong?

Calling what Twitter does -- SMS with ads and RoundRects -- leading software engineering is an insult to software engineers. If twitter built cars and planes, I would walk.

It's no insult. Given enough scale, simplest things like posting 140 character messages become engineering challenges.