Not to mention Twitter got a lot of its early success from making connections to media companies in television.<p>That may have worked for them, but I suspect it&#x27;s filled the company with many media-only types in a toxic way similar to how Yahoo got hurt by thinking of themselves as only a media&#x2F;ads company.  That killed them against Google, who as Paul Graham pointed out, was a company that was still successful in feeling like a startup technology company well after becoming large.<p>Given Twitter&#x27;s lack of technology innovations, I&#x27;m inclined to think they are more towards Yahoo than they are towards Google.