Twitter is a nice site specifically because there's no advertising (if there is, I don't see it; 3 Adblock), and it's non-intrusive; furthermore, it's designed to be updated from anywhere or anything. I don't like the nature of characer limits - I'm verbose by nature - but for what it does, it's great.
The moment someone tries to turn it profitable, they'll turn off a lot of their users. It's not like Facebook, which was really designed for advertisers; people can opt-into - and out-of - whatever they want. I can't get rid of Facebook's ads without breaking the site.
It's an interesting conundrum; most of the best social networks were started without the intention of being turned into revenue machines, and companies trying to turn them into revenue machines end up pissing off their revenue streams (users).
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