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>Give them a free threshold of say 10K followers, and then charge them a fee after that. Users clearly benefit, and often profit, from their large follower base
by idiot_stick 10y ago
>Give them a free threshold of say 10K followers, and then charge them a fee after that. Users clearly benefit, and often profit, from their large follower base. Twitter should profit from it too.
Interesting idea, in theory. In reality, the "thought leaders" will simply move to another platform that is "free". Is Twitter markedly different than Facebook/G+/Instagram/Snapchat/email?
- r00fus 10y agoWouldn't it be more social (in the sense that human organizations are often hierarchical/weblike) in this way? You are a thought leader - you'd want to have your immediate 10k followers to retweet your message to their groups. If you absolutely needed more leverage, you'd pay for the privilege.
- tynpeddler 10y agoThe 'thought leaders' are the product. They're the reason new people sign up. It would probably be better to implement something like twitch where you can 'subscribe' to someone with lots of followers for a small fee that twitter can take their cut of.