Looking at negative opinions here, and my own small understanding of the subject, let me propose an alternate approach for Twitter to really become exciting ag

Looking at negative opinions here, and my own small understanding of the subject, let me propose an alternate approach for Twitter to really become exciting again: And no it is not exciting as you've premised in the article. Here is an over-the-edge idea though: Merge Twitter with Square. Think. Probably Square will get a big consumer-face for its mobile payments company where every user of Twitter is able to exchange/collect/sell/charge anyone (friends) for petty purchases. And Twitter will get a business model. Using a nicely integrated web-to-mobile-to-anything system, Twitter can empower people to use their twitter accounts to not only converse, but also share money with each other. Just like we do in college. That's much more value than serving like a news hose. How does this sound to you?