Not to mention Twitter got a lot of its early success from making connections to media companies in television.

That may have worked for them, but I suspect it's filled the company with many media-only types in a toxic way similar to how Yahoo got hurt by thinking of themselves as only a media/ads company. That killed them against Google, who as Paul Graham pointed out, was a company that was still successful in feeling like a startup technology company well after becoming large.

Given Twitter's lack of technology innovations, I'm inclined to think they are more towards Yahoo than they are towards Google.