Same here. I find Twitter as 'internet weather' much more interesting than the individual tweets.
If a large % of users have the problem you're trying to solve, they might rather abandon twitter altogether than going to yet another tool to try to fix it. And if not, you're building a product for a (by definition) niche audience. Is going for a niche audience indeed the plan?
Interesting point. I think Twitter can be overwhelming in the way that the internet can be. People didn't abandon the internet just because it was hard to navigate. They turned to Google.