Where does the Twitter love come from?

Nat Torkington asks on O’Reilly Radar : …we want Twitter to succeed, so even when there’s armchair engineerly it’s largely good-natured. It feels like we’re on Twitter’s side, and that’s an amazing and rare thing for a company to have. Any other startup and the users would have bolted to any of the improbably-named Twitter-clone startups after Twitter’s first weekend with no tweets. Any thoughts about what they’ve done to earn this patience and affection? My 2p to the twittering about this: Twitter doesn’t get in the way. The inferface is very simple, to the point of oversimplicity. But it works. I customised mine to be as clean as possible and others did the opposite . Twitter is clean. another design related feature is that there are no fancy popups, no hovering graphics, which makes it intuitive, far more so than, for example, plurk . Twitter has always served a useful purpose to me before it suggested any b...