I would gladly pay a premium if they'd add some fricking features to Twitter and TweetDeck, and I bet I'm not the only one. Just one example, I'd like in TweetDeck to have more visualization options, as well as powerful filtering capability. I get a tweet about every 30 seconds and I would like to have the capability to have some of those go into a "must read later" bucket. That would take a good developer 2 to 8 weeks, lots of people would use it and love it and likely be happy to pay for it, Twitter has all sorts of developers and money, but how often do they release features that are useful? Instead we get some sort of "important" (according to their algorithm if I'm not mistaken) tweets abomination.

Hey I'm not saying these are necessarily awesome ideas, but if your ship is showing signs of starting to sink, doing crazy things like adding features to your product may not be all that crazy.