I would pay for twitter.
I would prefer to pay for Twitter
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Re: I would prefer to pay for Twitter
#22You would pay for Twitter, but you would not outbid the advertisers, who unlike you are willing to subsidize the people who won't pay for Twitter. Which is just a complicated way of saying that if Twitter charged for access, it would charge substantially more than you'd expect them to.
tptacek is right. It's even worse, if you consider two-tiered pricing (ad supported, and paid), since advertisers want the expensive types who would pay for access, so they would pay less for the ad supported user group than you would think.
But you could find a way to work around that issue e.g. by offering certain features that are fee based and that are unrelated to advertising.
Re: I would prefer to pay for Twitter
#23The problem is with something like twitter, you don't know how valuable it's going to be for you until start using it for a length of time. I'd probably be hesitant to pay even $5 for it if I though I might only tweet once or twice. Of course I'd be willing to pay more if it became a valuable social or business tool but I have no way of knowing.
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#24I would not pay for Twitter because I am already paying for it.
Remember the saying "if you are getting it for free, you are the product"?
Twitter get's my time and data, adverts are displayed to me and I get to use the service.
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#25Isn't there a paid Twitter clone that nobody uses that allows you to do exactly that, pay for it?
I think the app.net guys have been trying to differentiate themselves from being "Yet Another Twitter Clone", but that's how I first found out about them.
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#26>(By the way, if significant portions of your userbase are capable of becoming addicted to your product, consider that it may not be fully ethical to produce it.) Well, there goes the gaming industry.
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Re: I would prefer to pay for Twitter
#27Isn't there a paid Twitter clone that nobody uses that allows you to do exactly that, pay for it?
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#28Isn't there a paid Twitter clone that nobody uses that allows you to do exactly that, pay for it?
This one http://app.net/?
Re: I would prefer to pay for Twitter
#29>(By the way, if significant portions of your userbase are capable of becoming addicted to your product, consider that it may not be fully ethical to produce it.) Well, there goes the gaming industry.
> Well, there goes the gaming industry.
I think you mean the micro-transaction social gaming industry.
If you re-read what you quoted (emphasis mine):
"By the way, if significant portions of your userbase are capable of becoming addicted to your product, consider that it may not be fully ethical to produce it."
Re: I would prefer to pay for Twitter
#30>(By the way, if significant portions of your userbase are capable of becoming addicted to your product, consider that it may not be fully ethical to produce it.) Well, there goes the gaming industry.
Exactly. Would this also apply to products like Uber? I use it all the time, and can't imagine life without it. Am I addicted to it? Is it an unethical company because people love to use it and it provides value to their lives?
"Addiction is the continued repetition of a behavior despite adverse consequences, or a neurological impairment leading to such behaviors."
Would you say you have an addiction to Uber?