Unless they're hiring a bajillion people, I'd have thought they would just hire from their own network. In fact, they could probably hire a bajillion good people from their network anyway.

Seems strange.

Does this mean none of the founders are totally focused on Twitter any more?

Are they going to work with developers and then build the same thing in house making the developers product useless :)

The note field on the application being limited to 140 characters is a nice touch.

So, this is a new incubator?

Doing what exactly?

Isn't it Obvious?

these links indicate that its some sort of incubator:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Af84M08h6Y&feature=chann...

http://obvious.com/