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Serious question people, out of the people here that USE Twitter, how much would you pay a month for Twitter, if anything? http://directpoll.com/v?XDVhEtRR2EAl

by moey 11y ago

Serious question people, out of the people here that USE Twitter, how much would you pay a month for Twitter, if anything? http://directpoll.com/v?XDVhEtRR2EAlaVw2sOrQkWlBcohF0N2Z http://directpoll.com/v?XDVhEtRR2EAlaVw2sOrQkWlBcohF0N2Z I value the service, and am wondering what other people value it at. I will post the results here after set number of people vote. UPDATE Initially I was going to wait a little longer, but after looking at the results from this sample, the trend is pretty be predictable. RESULTS LINK: (VIEW AFTER VOTING PLEASE) http://directpoll.com/r?XDVhEtRR2EAlaVw2sOrQkWlBcohFw9na8aNcxY0oMnk http://directpoll.com/r?XDVhEtRR2EAlaVw2sOrQkWlBcohFw9na8aNc... I think the results deserve a discussion on their own...

arxpoetica 11y ago
I can't imagine ever paying for Twitter—but then, I thought it was a joke when I first heard of it, and I was wrong. ;)
lfowles 11y ago
Your poll is blocked at work, but I would feel comfortable paying per outgoing tweet, somewhat like SMS. In fact, let's extend that with two plans: $20/mo unlimited tweets 1¢/tweet, top up your account a dollar at a time
petercooper 11y ago
That's a tricky question, because while I would pay, say, $5 per month for it, if every existing user had to pay $5 for it, the value would decrease significantly as most people probably wouldn't pay that much and it'd decrease my reach. If I were to pay merely for added benefits over what I have now, it entirely depends on what they would be..
aaronbrethorst 11y ago
http://blog.app.net/2014/05/06/app-net-state-of-the-union/ http://blog.app.net/2014/05/06/app-net-state-of-the-union/
- moey 11y ago
  Yeah but this is not app.net. I think paying for something that already serves you useful purpose is different then signing up for a new service.
  - aaronbrethorst 11y ago
    Best of luck, would never work.
mahouse 11y ago
$0, taking into account what was of app.net
untog 11y ago
I don't think the results are particularly surprising. There is a reason Twitter is free, after all.
declan 11y ago
I used Twitter quite a bit for work purposes (before I left CNET/CBS last year to found a recommendation startup) and might have paid for it then. But the value for me was in interacting with a large number of people, and I suspect even charging a few dollars a year would lead to the vast majority of accounts disappearing, reducing the remaining users' incentive to pay, leading to more accounts disappearing, etc.
- moey 11y ago
  Lets say one had to pay 1 cent to tweet, don't you think that the quality of data would be much better? A lot of spam bots would be out of business.
afandian 11y ago
You much would you pay or how much do you pay? Your message and the poll disagree.
- moey 11y ago
  Fixed. Thanks
learnstats2 11y ago
I am a Twitter user but only because of social network inertia. If they charged me $0.01 once, I'd happily take the opportunity to leave. On the other hand, I would happily pay (today) for something that gave me full control over my content.
- gre 11y ago
  I'm not a twitter power user, so what exactly do you want to control about your twitter content? More than just deleting tweets/pictures? Serious question.
  - learnstats2 11y ago
    The complaints about Twitter on this forum all basically follow the same theme: Twitter won't let me do such-and-such when I try to read/write the content, or Twitter forces me to read/write in such a way. You can read each of those at your own leisure. The major shareholder of the article wants Twitter to provide a more Facebook-style algorithm-decides-what-you-read, which Twitter indeed seem to be insistently experimenting with. That's a major turn-off for me and I think a misjudgement. People currently move from Facebook to Twitter as their primary social network because of exactly that problem. Personally, I want to decide for myself. I like to see my network content, the content that I have already curated for myself, in chronological order. For whatever reason, social networks would prefer me not to have easy access to that any more. Ideally, I would like to have the ability to take everything I have written on Twitter (content that I have provided) and easily transfer it to an alternative host. I would like Twitter to give me the freedom to do that - so that I don't feel that I have to do it.
lindig 11y ago
The users who have the most to gain from Twitter are those with a huge following as they monetise their following outside of Twitter. Be it that they have something to sell or that they are campaigning. I there would find it reasonable to charge accounts that have more than 1000 followers per tweet a small fee.
- silverbax88 11y ago
  1000 followers is a pretty miniscule number to be charging.

by moey 11y ago

arxpoetica 11y ago

I can't imagine ever paying for Twitter—but then, I thought it was a joke when I first heard of it, and I was wrong. ;)

lfowles 11y ago

Your poll is blocked at work, but I would feel comfortable paying per outgoing tweet, somewhat like SMS. In fact, let's extend that with two plans: $20/mo unlimited tweets 1¢/tweet, top up your account a dollar at a time

petercooper 11y ago

That's a tricky question, because while I would pay, say, $5 per month for it, if every existing user had to pay $5 for it, the value would decrease significantly as most people probably wouldn't pay that much and it'd decrease my reach. If I were to pay merely for added benefits over what I have now, it entirely depends on what they would be..

aaronbrethorst 11y ago

http://blog.app.net/2014/05/06/app-net-state-of-the-union/ http://blog.app.net/2014/05/06/app-net-state-of-the-union/

moey 11y ago
Yeah but this is not app.net. I think paying for something that already serves you useful purpose is different then signing up for a new service.
- aaronbrethorst 11y ago
  Best of luck, would never work.

mahouse 11y ago

$0, taking into account what was of app.net

untog 11y ago

I don't think the results are particularly surprising. There is a reason Twitter is free, after all.

declan 11y ago

I used Twitter quite a bit for work purposes (before I left CNET/CBS last year to found a recommendation startup) and might have paid for it then. But the value for me was in interacting with a large number of people, and I suspect even charging a few dollars a year would lead to the vast majority of accounts disappearing, reducing the remaining users' incentive to pay, leading to more accounts disappearing, etc.

moey 11y ago
Lets say one had to pay 1 cent to tweet, don't you think that the quality of data would be much better? A lot of spam bots would be out of business.

afandian 11y ago

You much would you pay or how much do you pay? Your message and the poll disagree.

moey 11y ago
Fixed. Thanks

learnstats2 11y ago

I am a Twitter user but only because of social network inertia. If they charged me $0.01 once, I'd happily take the opportunity to leave. On the other hand, I would happily pay (today) for something that gave me full control over my content.

gre 11y ago
I'm not a twitter power user, so what exactly do you want to control about your twitter content? More than just deleting tweets/pictures? Serious question.
- learnstats2 11y ago
  The complaints about Twitter on this forum all basically follow the same theme: Twitter won't let me do such-and-such when I try to read/write the content, or Twitter forces me to read/write in such a way. You can read each of those at your own leisure. The major shareholder of the article wants Twitter to provide a more Facebook-style algorithm-decides-what-you-read, which Twitter indeed seem to be insistently experimenting with. That's a major turn-off for me and I think a misjudgement. People currently move from Facebook to Twitter as their primary social network because of exactly that problem. Personally, I want to decide for myself. I like to see my network content, the content that I have already curated for myself, in chronological order. For whatever reason, social networks would prefer me not to have easy access to that any more. Ideally, I would like to have the ability to take everything I have written on Twitter (content that I have provided) and easily transfer it to an alternative host. I would like Twitter to give me the freedom to do that - so that I don't feel that I have to do it.

lindig 11y ago

The users who have the most to gain from Twitter are those with a huge following as they monetise their following outside of Twitter. Be it that they have something to sell or that they are campaigning. I there would find it reasonable to charge accounts that have more than 1000 followers per tweet a small fee.

silverbax88 11y ago
1000 followers is a pretty miniscule number to be charging.