What exactly is Twitter's core value? Some say it's the world's town square. Fine, but how do you support (pay for) that? Town squares are generally funded and

What exactly is Twitter's core value? Some say it's the world's town square. Fine, but how do you support (pay for) that? Town squares are generally funded and maintained by public organisations and tax money. Twitter is a private company and I don't think there's much enthousiasm for giving Twitter public funding in order to run it.