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The last few months have been quite an interesting ride into the rise of an internet 2.0 darling. Twitter, the nombre du jour of the internet 2.0 crop of quickly built but toughly scaled web applications without any revenue has exploded onto the public scene thanks to its high profile use during the recent American elections and more recent use by various media pundits in live segments as a means of extracting real time opinions from the viewing audience. The growth curve of the companies user base has been extraordinary and has easily outpaced the growth curve of previous internet darlings like 1.0 stalwart (some would say first 2.0) Google, Youtube and others. Twitter is plotting an amazing hockey stick , particularly in the last few weeks as talk of a competiton to 1,000,000 users was joined between actor Ashton Kushner and CNN! However, despite the short term apparent success of the service in gaining users, it is still without revenue and is operating at an amazing accelerating b...