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Have they ever tried to charge to follow certain accounts? Say someone popular has 1m followers, all new followers would need to pay a subscription fee to recei
by alex_hitchins 10y ago
Have they ever tried to charge to follow certain accounts? Say someone popular has 1m followers, all new followers would need to pay a subscription fee to receive all their tweets. It's a bit like the old CelebIndex. The more followers someone has they more the tweets cost. I'm thinking something like 1 or 2 pence per tweet.
This is probably a terrible idea.
- rco8786 10y agoThis would have bankrupted Ken Bone's grandmother overnight.
- coev 10y agoA celeb/politician/etc's popularity is what brings regular people to twitter. To charge the celeb would be counterproductive and probably move them over to a competitor for good.
- alex_hitchins 10y agoSorry - I meant that it would cost general users say 50P a month to receive tweets from say a major A-lister, but 25p to recieve the tweets of a C-lister. People could get them for free, just delayed by say 30 minutes.