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That seems awfully counterproductive, and it would take about 30 minutes for someone to start republishing paid users' content. Here are some ideas that I thin
by jarin 16y ago
That seems awfully counterproductive, and it would take about 30 minutes for someone to start republishing paid users' content.
Here are some ideas that I think would work way better:
- In-stream advertising (ala Twitteriffic)
- Charge a couple of bucks for mobile apps (or mobile app API access)
- Charge for premium, business-oriented features (multi-user accounts, autofollow, analytics, ability to receive DMs without following someone, custom CSS on profile page)
- Charge to vote on American Idol via Twitter
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- jgilliam 16y agoNone of those ideas help twitter users make money, which is the ideal model for network based platforms. Except charging to vote on American Idol, which is a great example of something you could do with the pay-to-follow model. You vote by following @caseyabramsIDOL. It would have to be a private follow though because otherwise you'd know the results right away. And sure, all content gets pirated, so what?
- bigiain 16y ago"it would take about 30 minutes for someone to start republishing paid users' content." That'd be something that Twitter should be able to keep on top of, at least for naive automated retweets... The more I think about it, the more I think it might work. Especially if they can get micropayments worked out.
- jarin 16y agoWell, if anyone had any doubts: https://twitter.com/#!/freenyt https://twitter.com/#!/freenyt