Do I really want to see Twitter gone? Yes. I despise the trend of writing news articles where tweets are treated as sources, and most of the article is a series of tweets. One of the headlines I avoid ends with the phrase "and the Internet/Twitter goes <strong emotion>".

Twitter has only one logical paying customer that I can see: the media. The media immediately grabbed on to Twitter, pushing their handles on broadcasts. Back in 2007 I remember saying that CNN should have a rack with their name on it at Twitter's data center. Twitter has been trying to find a way to make advertising work, but if anyone wants to save Twitter (if it actually needs saving), it would be the media, maybe in the form of something like the AP, a service that everyone uses and pays into.