Yes, Twitter absolutely is and will continue to be (for the near future) a very important part of the online ecosystem.<p>But.  With every change to put more ads in the faces of users, every change to control the feed and get rid of the real-time nature of it, Twitter is killing itself.  Once Twitter moves to a fully-controlled feed model, Mr. Wilson will no longer see those tweets from LeBron and DeMar and Kristaps in real-time, because his feed will be showing him stuff from an hour ago that is &quot;hot&quot; or that is sponsored or otherwise generates money for Twitter.  Something with autoplaying video from a &quot;sponsored submitter&quot;.  Something without clickable links so it won&#x27;t take you out of the Twitter sandbox.<p>There&#x27;s a stench of death about Twitter.  It&#x27;s not dead, definitely not.  But its owners are clearly intent on killing it.<p>That aroma is real and it&#x27;s only getting stronger.