There's plenty of people who would pay for Twitter as a premium experience. Twitter's problem is that the design and product team's egos wouldn't like the fact

There's plenty of people who would pay for Twitter as a premium experience. Twitter's problem is that the design and product team's egos wouldn't like the fact the main thing people would pay for is being able to opt out of their "improvements" to the service. £4.99 a month for full API access for third party clients, plus two anonymously nominated other accounts (privacy protecting your alts). Total chronological order. Clients can opt out of all "conversation" UI improvements. Favourites can be turned back to stars. Users can pick the client that's best for them layout wise. A proper, useful search tool. A website with more that two tweets on screen on a 4K monitor. No algorithmic features whatsoever. It would sell like gangbusters. It might also suggest to shareholders that their biggest problem was Twitter's employees.