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The thing is, nowadays, do you think any celebrity that frequently uses Twitter would stop because they have to pay $1,000/year (or way more)? They know it's a
by manuelflara 14y ago
The thing is, nowadays, do you think any celebrity that frequently uses Twitter would stop because they have to pay $1,000/year (or way more)? They know it's a huge promotion channel for them. It may have been a bad idea in the beginning, but now Twitter's huge.
- diego 14y agoJust run the numbers. For one, there are approximately 3M people with 1k followers or more. If they charged an average of $5/month, many (most) would simply not pay. A significant number of those people are international. Many of them did not even try to get followers. Even if all of them paid, $200m/year does not come close to justifying Twitter's valuation. Trust me on this, Twitter doesn't want to mess with the head of the distribution. The backlash would be terrible, and it would destabilize their ecosystem.