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This is probably closer to a viable revenue model. Don't charge per-tweet, rather charge people who have a large follower count to broadcast a tweet to all of
by evgen 10y ago
This is probably closer to a viable revenue model. Don't charge per-tweet, rather charge people who have a large follower count to broadcast a tweet to all of their followers. Free tweets go to the top X% or 1000 followers, whichever is greater, and to truly broadcast to a million followers costs money. Something similar to what FB does for posts from pages that you once, in the distant past, liked; page owners complain about this to no end, but they keep paying...
- protomyth 10y agoThat would break the followers expectations that when I follow someone I expect to get their tweets. Facebook is already pulling this crud and it's annoying.
- chetanahuja 10y agoIt doesn't even have to be a "not deliver" model. It can simply be a matter of "deliver harder" for paying celebs/companies. Not as hard as a promoted tweet but not as ignorable as just a regular tweet scrolling past the bottom edge of the screen. There can be special pricing for highlighting tweets or "temporal persistence" of tweets.