I totally agree with this. I've seen other posts mentioning timeline changes, protocol changes, and opening up the API ecosystem, but I don't see any of these

I totally agree with this. I've seen other posts mentioning timeline changes, protocol changes, and opening up the API ecosystem, but I don't see any of these changes actually affecting Twitters bottom line. Twitter is a great place to discuss what's going on right now. Whether it be sports, a natural disaster, political debate, news, etc. Twitter needs to be the place to go when you want social commentary / news on what's happening RIGHT NOW.