The higher the price the more valuable the users who pay it are to advertisers. Thus the price needs to be even higher and endlessly up it goes. Well, the pric

The higher the price the more valuable the users who pay it are to advertisers. Thus the price needs to be even higher and endlessly up it goes. Well, the price is higher for an ever-smaller set of users! It’s a demand curve - in principle you can pick a point where cost $C x N users is worth more than the loss of advertising revenue from those users. Arguably headlines are closer to tweets than comments. I’d argue the opposite! As a compromise -- how about links on Twitter are similar to HN headlines?