What do they mean "claim" twitter name? do they mean claim your app.net name?
The intent was that a twitter user could reserve the same username for App.net. In reality, you can reserve any username -- it doesn't have to be a twitter handle.
App.net funded with $500,000.
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#202Does anyone else see this and think, "It's like Twitter, except for people who want to complain about Twitter all the time"? That's the vibe I get. There's no way those high school friends I reconnected with are paying for this. There's no way my uncles or cousins are signing up for this. There's no way more than ~5% of my real-life social network will. It seems like yet another Silicon Valley niche product. Maybe I'm wrong, I just don't see it for the 95% of the world that doesn't care about T/FB monetization.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recent decisions made by Twitter are all about optimizing the site for advertising revenues. I don't think Twitter has any other choice because they chose the free path from the start. I highly doubt Twitter would suddenly switch to a premium/freemium model. While Twitter has empowered revolutions, I think the quality of the community has degraded though. I believe that if people pay for being part of a community, pe…
I really don't get this "quality of the community" has degraded argument. I hear the same about Facebook. If the quality is degrading it's because of YOUR friends and YOUR choices about who to follow. Other people including myself simply hide posts or unfollow when the SNR becomes too low.
But wouldn't it be so much nicer if you didn't have to ignore the little people?
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's more fundamentally about this: Do you want to be the product (facebook, twitter) or the customer (app.net)? A lot of people don't want to be the product and believe when a company focuses on them as a customer rather than them as eyeballs to be sold to advertisers, who are the customer, then a better service is the outcome for the users of the service. With app.net the user is the customer. With Facebook and Twi…
> Do you want to be the product (facebook, twitter) or the customer (app.net)? So, what explicit rights does the customer have over that which they get with Facebook or Twitter? Do I have voting rights for features? Is the business model solid? I mean, $500,000 is great and all, but that needs to last an entire year all while supporting future development. Sure, they can get new people on board, but what's their plan…
> So, what explicit rights does the customer have over that which they get with Facebook or Twitter? Do I have voting rights for features?
No the features will automatically get better, because you pay for the quality and all the plebs won't get in.
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not really sure what the purpose of this service is. ... I myself wouldn't pay to use Facebook minus the ads. You answered your own question above, and also identified why app.net won't interest you. If you're okay with ads, then I think you'd get zero utility from app.net
As I read your post I realized app.net is probably for me. It's like lower Manhattan or parts of San Francisco. People who think the rents are ridiculous shouldn't live there anyway; it's not for them.
Thanks for your honesty. This is what a lot of people here seem to be thinking but don't dare to say out loud: Twitter without the "little people". Because you're worth it!
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#207"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."
A quote hanging above my Grandma's oven :-P
Congrats Dalton
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
It could be a lot of curiosity that drove it. Now I can see a problem arising if they take outside investment.
They already have, $5 million from Andreessen Horowitz http://www.crunchbase.com/company/mixed-media-labs
Interesting. So immediately there's a large stake holder that withdraws value disproportional to their value of the network; Whether it's a problem or not would have to be thought through..
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#209I think most people signing up now are doing it for the land-rush of usernames.