do the gurus actually look at this forum?

Well I thought most of the Gurus are developers, and their job is to work on the game. It's not their job to moderate/chit chat in the forums. I'm pretty sure they have other people to keep an eye on the forums and pass the info to them. And as far as I know, when they do show up in the forums (or twitter) it's on their free time. The only reason they are more active on twitter , it's because it's easier for them. I've seen many Gurus tweeting away and answering any question they can on their launch break, while commuting back and forth from work , or when they are back home and instead of relaxing with their families watching tv, they just hang out on twitter communicating with us. As someone stated above , twitter is not a forum , it's a bunch of little tweets. And that is exactly the point. It's easier and faster and usually can even get immiediate. The fact that we don't see them much here, doesn't mean they aren't lurking around. But it's way easier for them to read a bunch of 280 characters tweets , instead of going through pages and pages of esseys, as they usually do that on their FREE time.