A better title might be: How to Kill Twitter With This One Trick (Paid Access) Twitter is IMHO only a communication platform for celebrities and brands. This i

A better title might be: How to Kill Twitter With This One Trick (Paid Access) Twitter is IMHO only a communication platform for celebrities and brands. This is <0.1% of the user base. For most people, your Tweets are even less noteworthy than Youtube comments. What users use Twitter for seems to be three things: 1. As a de facto notifications platform; 2. As a news feed aggregator. This then means consuming content off platform; and 3. "Voting" on content you agree or disagree with. Ultimately this is what liking and retweeing really is: no different to liking a Youtube video. That's all it does. Users are famously unwilling to part with even small sums of money for Internet services. Twitter seems no different here.