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I suggested that to @stop on Twitter but didn't get a response. In all seriousness though, I want to give Twitter money. It has contributed to my career in way

I suggested that to @stop on Twitter but didn't get a response. In all seriousness though, I want to give Twitter money. It has contributed to my career in ways I'll never be able to fully measure and I feel like I owe Twitter something. Ads and intrusive trend bars are annoying, so I'd much rather give money. Monthly plans, yearly plans, "pro" plans... I don't care. They just need to get something in place.

siglesias 16y ago
Precisely. We follow who we follow because we aren't interested in the rest. It's really bad to force follow a source of information that we don't care about. These ads are way not relevant.
phlux 16y ago
Would you pay $.99 per month for the same twitter everything you have now?
- flyosity 16y ago
  I'd pay way, way more than that.
  - phlux 16y ago
    Can you give more details on how twitter has been so valuable to you?
    - jrockway 16y ago
      A dollar is "valuable"?
      - phlux 16y ago
        Obviously, I was responding to the fact that he had stated that he was helped in immeasurable ways - which I took to mean more than monetarily, so was looking for anecdotes beyond financial value.
        lancewiggs 16y ago
        It's valuable for the network it brings. However once you start charging for it or spamming it with advertisements then some people will stop using it - and then it's a slippery slope.
    - rudiger 16y ago
      Is $0.99 a month really "so valuable"? If you use Twitter at all, it's worth more than that.
    - flyosity 16y ago
      Sure. - I was offered two technical editor gigs for iPhone development & design books because the main editor of the project found me on Twitter. - I built a friendship with a fellow UI guy that turned into a business relationship and I'm now speaking at his conference in San Diego this spring. - Without spending any money on marketing, I got over 4,000 signups to an email list that will announce when my next big project is launching. All I did was tweet about it. - Again, without spending any money, I tweeted about a Mac twitter app I was working on last year and it up becoming a trending topic, eventually responsible for over 30,000 downloads. - I've been able to help friends of mine with their projects (newly-released iPhone apps, website redesigns, icon sets available for purchase, etc.) by linking to them on Twitter. I keep track of all my URL statistics and many times a link I tweet will get over 3k clicks. I've had friends make hundreds of dollars (within an hour or so) directly from a link I tweeted which is pretty awesome. Sorry to go on and on, but by extracting the positive things that have happened to my career since 2006 (when I first got on Twitter) I can say that nearly all happened because of a relationship built from Twitter. Which is pretty nuts.

siglesias 16y ago

Precisely. We follow who we follow because we aren't interested in the rest. It's really bad to force follow a source of information that we don't care about. These ads are way not relevant.

phlux 16y ago

Would you pay $.99 per month for the same twitter everything you have now?

flyosity 16y ago
I'd pay way, way more than that.
- phlux 16y ago
  Can you give more details on how twitter has been so valuable to you?
  - jrockway 16y ago
    A dollar is "valuable"?
    - phlux 16y ago
      Obviously, I was responding to the fact that he had stated that he was helped in immeasurable ways - which I took to mean more than monetarily, so was looking for anecdotes beyond financial value.
      - lancewiggs 16y ago
        It's valuable for the network it brings. However once you start charging for it or spamming it with advertisements then some people will stop using it - and then it's a slippery slope.
  - rudiger 16y ago
    Is $0.99 a month really "so valuable"? If you use Twitter at all, it's worth more than that.
  - flyosity 16y ago
    Sure. - I was offered two technical editor gigs for iPhone development & design books because the main editor of the project found me on Twitter. - I built a friendship with a fellow UI guy that turned into a business relationship and I'm now speaking at his conference in San Diego this spring. - Without spending any money on marketing, I got over 4,000 signups to an email list that will announce when my next big project is launching. All I did was tweet about it. - Again, without spending any money, I tweeted about a Mac twitter app I was working on last year and it up becoming a trending topic, eventually responsible for over 30,000 downloads. - I've been able to help friends of mine with their projects (newly-released iPhone apps, website redesigns, icon sets available for purchase, etc.) by linking to them on Twitter. I keep track of all my URL statistics and many times a link I tweet will get over 3k clicks. I've had friends make hundreds of dollars (within an hour or so) directly from a link I tweeted which is pretty awesome. Sorry to go on and on, but by extracting the positive things that have happened to my career since 2006 (when I first got on Twitter) I can say that nearly all happened because of a relationship built from Twitter. Which is pretty nuts.