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How is $5/year with one million users more compelling than free/year with five hundred million users?
by jmduke 14y ago
How is $5/year with one million users more compelling than free/year with five hundred million users?
- ceejayoz 14y agoNot having to deal with 300 million spam users?
- hobonumber1 14y agoHow is it spam if you're responsible for choosing who you listen to vs who you ignore?
- dannyr 14y agoIf you want to interact with the community, it's an issue. Post something on Twitter mentioning "IPad", you'll get a lot of spam accounts replying. It's hard to engage with other users if you have to comb through the spam.
- ceejayoz 14y agoYou choose who you follow, but you don't choose who @replies to you.
- ChrisLTD 14y agoThe reason parts of the tech celebrity circle (like Gruber, Siracusa, and Arment) supported App.net was because of Twitter's new hostility to third-party developers, not because of spam.
- rexreed 14y agoIt may not be, but the odds of building another free-to-use 500 Million+ social network without raising a $1B in the process are pretty slim. I think they are trying to prove that an alternative exists to ad-driven business models for growth (the people are the product, not the customers). In which case, they aren't going for size, but for value. That's why there must be a cost.