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> Easily hundreds of dollars a year worth of value. Easily. So naturally you'd pay hundreds of dollars a year for a subscription, right?
by morgante 13y ago
> Easily hundreds of dollars a year worth of value. Easily.
So naturally you'd pay hundreds of dollars a year for a subscription, right?
- nl 13y agoYou have to be careful there. Twitter is valuable because of the huge audience. Making everyone pay will lose that. BUT, there is an important subset of people who will easily pay hundreds for a subscription. LinkedIn is a good example: free for everyone, but recruiters pay for extra access. It's easy to imagine brands paying Twitter for a similar model.
- morgante 13y agoAbsolutely. If Twitter could successfully get people who derive real business value from it to pay (like how LinkedIn does), they can succeed. But unfortunately I don't think even most Twitter power users will pay. Even if brands will pay, it's a fundamentally different equation than LinkedIn's in that there are a lot more recruiters out there than brands.
- harryh 13y agoYes, absolutely. Though I worry that a lot of the people I follow wouldn't. And if they left, then the value goes down for me. That's why I said it's hard for Twitter to capture that value.