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How would you monetise the backbone? At least with the website/app they can use advertising.
by aembleton 10y ago
How would you monetise the backbone? At least with the website/app they can use advertising.
- bernardlunn 10y agoIt would let the apps on top figure that out and they take a rev share
- true_religion 10y agoCharge people who build applications that use it in any significant way beyond sending text messages through the Twitter approved interface.
- iainmerrick 10y agoWould the pricing be per app, or per user? If you charge per user, it's unaffordable for small developers (unless they push the cost on to their users). If you charge per app, you won't make enough money for it to be worthwhile.
- true_religion 10y agoI'd charge per user, because as you said... small developers can push the cost onto their users.
- intrasight 10y agoTwilio has managed to find a way
- criddell 10y agoGPS is out there for anybody to use for free. It's incredibly useful and the value to the economy of having that there as a utility anybody can use is huge. Perhaps Twitter as a utility could be just as valuable. Maybe it doesn't need to be monetized.
- icebraining 10y agoSure, just convince the US military to use Twitter to drop bombs on people.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThey already use IRC for that, so maybe they could at least support it more...
- TeMPOraL 10y agoBut GPS is broadcast, and Twitter is ultimately packed-switched. I.e. the "GPS providers" don't have to pay more money just because there are more users - the satellite signals are already in the air, free and open for use by anyone who knows how.
- criddell 10y agoThat really doesn't matter. It only makes the per-user cost more difficult to figure out. FWIW, I believe GPS costs the US on the order of $1 per user per month.