samstave didn't turn down the job-he told the interviewer his start date. That was the end of the interview. Afterwards, samstave never heard back from twitter.

Yep.

But the way it was stated after the multi round interviews appeared to imply that they were interested in me.

After a few weeks of nothing, I emailed the recruiter and got a terse "we've decided to go another direction" email.

I thought it was ironic that I had said poor communication would be a bad thing for us, and then there was poor communication in telling me they weren't interested.

:)

It all worked out great for both of us though, because the job I have now is such a better fit for me than twitter would have been.

There's a difference between "I told him, the interview was over" and "I told him the interview was over"

yes, right, I tend to overlook punctuation when reading comments, etc but he did punctuate correctly there, my mistake