Twitter deserves to go away. they brought it on themselves. They were the most awesome service ever, for a long time, and they continously screwed over third party services like twitpic, as well as third party developers by breaking apps, imposing rate limits, and designing TOS in such a way as to make writing apps more difficult.

Remember when twitter was growing exponentially? Anyone with a basic knowledge of curl coould make anything post things to their twitter account? I'm sure somewhere somone came up with a toaster that would tweet when their toast was ready. Then came enforced oauth which basically killed that, as well as tons of apps like twitux. That was the beginning of the decline. And then things got worse and worse.

Now, people can even claim their tweets are copyrighted, and there's this whole thing about rt(ing) with changed text being a copyright infringement. The whole idea of twitter descended from astronomical hights into the cesspool of stupidity it has become today.