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I wonder if it is the pricing issue. The Techcrunch article has a screenshot of Twitter's paid pricing, and they show "25 subscriptions" as "$339/month"... whi
by SyneRyder 8y ago
I wonder if it is the pricing issue. The Techcrunch article has a screenshot of Twitter's paid pricing, and they show "25 subscriptions" as "$339/month"... which is $13.56 USD/month per subscription.
If Twitter is actually charging $13.56/mth per account, I guess that explains why they never did a consumer subscription. I've always wanted to pay for Twitter, but that's more than Netflix, more than Dropbox, more than Spotify.
Unless I have drastically misread that image, which is entirely possible. I'm not clear on what is included in one "subscription".
- esrauch 8y agoPresumably a publicly released app isn't going for a 25 subscriptions at $14/account deal, they must be targeting some special enterprise/social marketing space. It isn't obvious that a random consumer would expect to pay the same.
- SyneRyder 8y agoThe makers of Twitterrific (desktop Mac app) have confirmed the pricing per 3rd-party user and that they likely can't continue: "It’s looking like it won’t be financially possible for us to afford the new account activity API from twitter." "Many of you have done the math and seen it would be about $12/user/month for notifications - but don’t forget that in order to do a subscription we’d have to cover Apple’s 30% overhead and make enough for us to pay for food and shelter. So, uh… yeah." "This isn’t a “wow that’s kind of expensive” situation. This is “deathblow expensive” situation." [1] https://twitter.com/BigZaphod/status/996785022886608896 https://twitter.com/BigZaphod/status/996785022886608896 [2] https://twitter.com/BigZaphod/status/996831340740972549 https://twitter.com/BigZaphod/status/996831340740972549
- esrauch 8y agoYeah, I just meant that the move seems to pretty clearly be "no more API access for consumer apps, only for internal enterprise type use cases".