While I personally stopped tweeting in May, it was clear that now was the time for Flipboard to stop tweeting as well.
This is a sad outcome given that Twitter was the platform we got started on in 2010 and I was a board member there with Jack, Ev and Dick. But that Twitter is gone now. And the future is the open social web.
@mike Sad, but true.
From the first BBS or Usegroup we've known that a great community needs care: moderation, animation and investment of passion.
Twitter HAD that. Now it doesn't.
It's become yet another cautionary tale of what happens when somebody thinks the strength of their own hype train can substitute for interested leadership.