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In "Hatching Twitter," a Billion-Dollar Company That Almost Wasn't - Mike Isaac - Social - AllThingsD - Twitter’s founders may indeed have tapped into one of the most pervasive new forms of communication in the past century

Simplicity and utility are sometimes more compelling than a service which bloats itself into uselessness. The Google home page is a prime example.