[learnstats2]

I am a Twitter user but only because of social network inertia. If they charged me $0.01 once, I'd happily take the opportunity to leave.

On the other hand, I would happily pay (today) for something that gave me full control over my content.

[gre]

I'm not a twitter power user, so what exactly do you want to control about your twitter content? More than just deleting tweets/pictures? Serious question.

[learnstats2]

The complaints about Twitter on this forum all basically follow the same theme: Twitter won't let me do such-and-such when I try to read/write the content, or Twitter forces me to read/write in such a way. You can read each of those at your own leisure.

The major shareholder of the article wants Twitter to provide a more Facebook-style algorithm-decides-what-you-read, which Twitter indeed seem to be insistently experimenting with. That's a major turn-off for me and I think a misjudgement. People currently move from Facebook to Twitter as their primary social network because of exactly that problem. Personally, I want to decide for myself.

I like to see my network content, the content that I have already curated for myself, in chronological order. For whatever reason, social networks would prefer me not to have easy access to that any more.

Ideally, I would like to have the ability to take everything I have written on Twitter (content that I have provided) and easily transfer it to an alternative host.

I would like Twitter to give me the freedom to do that - so that I don't feel that I have to do it.