Dare Obasanjo suggests that Twitter's suggested user list - which the A-List bloggers are constantly having a go at - might be smarter than we think:

I've had my issues with the SUL mainly from the perspective of how it ends up presenting Twitter to new users. When my wife joined Twitter I'd have loved it if the service had used integration with Facebook, Windows Live, MySpace, etc to suggest people who she already knew who were on Twitter.

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In retrospect, not doing what I preferred them to do shows a lot of insight. It prevents the site from being viewed as yet another service where you have a duplicated social graph and thus has to compete head to head with the Facebooks and MySpaces of the world. Instead it pitches Twitter as a sort of user friendly RSS reader where you connect with your favorite celebrities and brands instead of another place where you get status updates from people who you're already getting status updates from in Facebook.

I hadn't really thought about it that way (and, since I go to the Twitter web page so little, I have only seen the SUL page once). My questions still revolve around how Twitter is going to generate revenue. I still see no answer to that one, beyond "keep getting money from gullible VCs".

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