Kind of insane that they've reached this point. Why didn't they attempt to monetise journalism by providing users of Twitter with a subscription that allows th

Kind of insane that they've reached this point. Why didn't they attempt to monetise journalism by providing users of Twitter with a subscription that allows them to skip the paywalls of big newspapers and that could automatically aggregate the individual micropayments into a revenue stream for the publishers that sign up? (This would make sense to me: often an individual interaction is worth very little, but the aggregate can find a buyer.) Do massively funded startups get trapped into their original revenue-creation strategy due to the original vision they sold investors? It looks like that's the case, and if so that's terrible for manoeuvrability.