As ceo of Faveeo a startup active in this space since 2012, I've ben thinking a lot about these issues; and the main problems of twitter are also what motivated

As ceo of Faveeo a startup active in this space since 2012, I've ben thinking a lot about these issues; and the main problems of twitter are also what motivated me to launch several products since the inception of our own company. I'll try to post my 2c here : 1) I think there is a paradox on twitter, which is that the more you follow people (the more you use and invest yourself in the tool; the harder it gets to use and to extract value from. The thing is; for more people it's already hard enough to actually take the time to find the right people to follow (and to actually find them, curate your followings, etc) butthe end result if often times am overload of information which begs the question : how can a app that rewards engagement with negative outcomes can succeed in the long run? The concept of twitter is just awesome and they invented a whole new medium; but I'm quetionning the concept of following people one by one. One thing we built at Faveeo is called Horizons, and it enables to show the system some examples of people you like and trust; and our tool will automatically uncover and follow the best links posted and shared by those users. We call it uncovering and following a trusted network at scale and we're having quite a success with it especially with people who want to tap into twitter without spending their life managing their twitter experience. Twitter is absolutely full of great content, it's too hard to find. Twitter could do a massive consumer facing app enabling people to follow topics and trusted bundles of it's own users AND surfacing their best links and content and I'm quite sure it would reach up to a billion users as more and more people are looking for content outside of their own bubble... Also, twitter should care much more about the content of the links people share; then ONLY caring about the tweets themselves, which to be fair they do with media inserts now. Happy to discuss this and have a look at http://horizons.social http://horizons.social to try our twitter network discovery approach. (self promotion but for once there is a topic I'm actually an expert on :))