Linda Yaccarino’s vision for Twitter 2.0 emerges
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This is the exact trend that newspapers and print media went through, and look at where they are all going: National Geographic just laid off the last of their staff writers.
And it's not that ads can't be a revenue stream. But the needs of the users have to be balanced with the needs of the advertisers so that both can grow. If the balance tips too far in one direction, the other side will depart. Slowly if you are lucky.