I'm not sure if this is a good idea, in general. How do you compete with a completely free service? Sure, there are some ads, but is it noticeable in desktop/mo

I'm not sure if this is a good idea, in general. How do you compete with a completely free service? Sure, there are some ads, but is it noticeable in desktop/mobile Twitter apps? Even third party apps that use the Twitter API? The same principal stands for Craigslist - it's hard to compete with free by offering "customer trust." I don't think there's much value in customer trust compared to free software where I know I can't complain if it goes down. Now, if I used App.net professionally in the sense that I cannot ever have my notifications go down, I might do it, but then again, there are so many social networks that the odds of both Facebook and Twitter (the two largest ones in the US that I can think of) will be down at the same time. Still, good luck to him.