Twitter Needs To Kill The Clones. Let The Powers Of Ning Save You

Twitter clones have been popping up left and right since their inception, offering niche versions of the original service.
Twitter launched their first topic focused vertical with their election page recently. There needs to be more of this, so we can have a Twitter group for movie lovers or Los Angeles restaurant goers, etc.
Twitter could have even launched an enterprise feature that could have squashed Yammer and Present.ly.
They recently raised $15m and they could certainly use it to build out group focused sections of the site, or let users build their own. Kind of like a Ning for Twitter, build your own.
I would love to have a little Twitter feature on tinyCrunch, where I could adjust some character limit settings, add more users, and start to utilize the micro-blogging platform to help improve upon my standalone service.

Will Twitter pull it together or are they still worrying about their ability to stay live?

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