Quite desperate of these companies to charge their most important assets, the influencers/publishers. $10 is the cost to run their own website with complete edi

Quite desperate of these companies to charge their most important assets, the influencers/publishers. $10 is the cost to run their own website with complete editorial freedom, and if people want to follow them, get an RSS reader. The whole advantage of FB/twitter is that it 's cheaper and broader. And this model doesnt even scale up. FB makes ~$60 per user/year which is comparable. If people start verifying en masse, they dont have the capacity to really verify the users identity, that the users haven't sold their accounts etc etc. They are shooting their moneymaker here What i like about these payment schemes is that they put a real value on the company, based on what customers are willing to pay for the service, not the nebulous advertising return. The results of these programs should also inform investors about the true value of the companies.