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I don't use IG, but I do both use Twitter and agree with you that the increased percentage of promoted material is a bummer. I would pay Twitter $3 to $4 per mo

I don't use IG, but I do both use Twitter and agree with you that the increased percentage of promoted material is a bummer. I would pay Twitter $3 to $4 per month to get a "premium" ad-free account. I wonder if they ever considered this, and what the economics would be.

gbear605 7y ago
Per https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2018/04/02/a-look-at-twitters-valuation/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2018/04/02/a-... they make about $7.50 per user per year, so even a dollar a month should be better
- mark_l_watson 7y ago
  +1, thanks for the link. Since the original article is more about Google, I would like to say that while Google's paid gmail+office is a compelling product that I liked paying for until I realized that there was no way I could merge services bought with my "free" Google account with the paid account. I think this is a lesson for Twitter if they ever do offer a paid service: integrate well with the old free account or convert old account and history smoothly.
- hellomyguys 7y ago
  Yeah, but there's a good chance the parent poster is worth more the $7.50 ARPU to Twitter. They can also probably increase their ARPU more than they can increase a hypothetical subscription cost, which is why these comments about ad-based companies providing a subscription service aren't actually these no-brainer ideas. Now with that being said, it would be nice if companies cared more about having sustainable businesses with healthy, non-intrusive user experiences than revenue growth.
- lotsofpulp 7y ago
  The people willing and able to pay to opt out of ads are worth much more than $7.50.
nkingsy 7y ago
The general response to this seems to be that people who would pay for subscriptions are the highest value ad targets and worth significantly more than 3-4/m?
- mark_l_watson 7y ago
  Good point. That probably gets us up to the $3 to $4/month price point, or much more.
- apazzolini 7y ago
  I'd love to see some data on this. I'm worth literally zero to Twitter; I use an adblocker everywhere, and when that fails, not only do I never click on an ad, I purposefully scroll as quickly past them as I can. I'd pay a couple bucks a month to remove that hassle.

gbear605 7y ago

Per https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2018/04/02/a-look-at-twitters-valuation/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2018/04/02/a-... they make about $7.50 per user per year, so even a dollar a month should be better

mark_l_watson 7y ago
+1, thanks for the link. Since the original article is more about Google, I would like to say that while Google's paid gmail+office is a compelling product that I liked paying for until I realized that there was no way I could merge services bought with my "free" Google account with the paid account. I think this is a lesson for Twitter if they ever do offer a paid service: integrate well with the old free account or convert old account and history smoothly.
hellomyguys 7y ago
Yeah, but there's a good chance the parent poster is worth more the $7.50 ARPU to Twitter. They can also probably increase their ARPU more than they can increase a hypothetical subscription cost, which is why these comments about ad-based companies providing a subscription service aren't actually these no-brainer ideas. Now with that being said, it would be nice if companies cared more about having sustainable businesses with healthy, non-intrusive user experiences than revenue growth.
lotsofpulp 7y ago
The people willing and able to pay to opt out of ads are worth much more than $7.50.

nkingsy 7y ago

The general response to this seems to be that people who would pay for subscriptions are the highest value ad targets and worth significantly more than 3-4/m?

mark_l_watson 7y ago
Good point. That probably gets us up to the $3 to $4/month price point, or much more.
apazzolini 7y ago
I'd love to see some data on this. I'm worth literally zero to Twitter; I use an adblocker everywhere, and when that fails, not only do I never click on an ad, I purposefully scroll as quickly past them as I can. I'd pay a couple bucks a month to remove that hassle.