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Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets

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Re: Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets

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Post by bradleyjoyce »

davidu wrote: post #17
bradleyjoyce wrote: post #8

This is precisely why I built http://tweetsaver.com ... I wanted a nice way to search through ALL my old tweets AND keep them around. I'm always retweeting awesome content, favoriting interesting things, and sometimes I just want to remember what I said without having to click MORE MORE MORE MORE for 100 pages to find it on twitter.com. Maybe someday Twitter will turn on a feature that kills my app, but for now I thi…

$120/year is not worth it to me. $10/year would be. Just my feedback. :-)

we tried yearly pricing and it turned out to be a big pain.. people forgot about their subscriptions and we're confused/angry when it renewed, people's credit card numbers changed or expired after a year and caused subscriptions to expire, etc etc... $10/yr pricing on a monthly subscription doesn't work because there are just too many fees. Appreciate the feedback though... still trying to figure out the right price.

Re: Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets

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Post by bradleyjoyce »

avar wrote: post #18
bradleyjoyce wrote: post #8

This is precisely why I built http://tweetsaver.com ... I wanted a nice way to search through ALL my old tweets AND keep them around. I'm always retweeting awesome content, favoriting interesting things, and sometimes I just want to remember what I said without having to click MORE MORE MORE MORE for 100 pages to find it on twitter.com. Maybe someday Twitter will turn on a feature that kills my app, but for now I thi…

Please don't design your site so that I have to authorize my account and only then find out that I have to fork over $5 or $10 for the service (and de-authorize my account). Only a "Pricing" link in the top-right corner indicates that the site is behind a paywall.

you don't have to authorize your account to find out it's behind a paywall... but I agree, the flow needs to be improved.

Re: Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets

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Post by moron4hire »

If I whisper the most beautiful poem over the telephone to my lover today, am I going to complain about the phone company not archiving that call properly when I want to revisit it 20 years from now? You go into Twitter knowing it's about the ebb and flow of current conversation, not about what was said when it first came out. If Twitter wants to eventually offer that, that's cool, but that's not the case right now, and you shouldn't expect it any more than you should expect 7-11 to keep their security footage of you for your perusal indefinitely into the future.

edit: from Twitter's Terms of Use (http://twitter.com/tos): "This license is you authorizing us to make your Tweets available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same. But what’s yours is yours – you own your content."

You own your content. You are responsible for it.

Re: Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets

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Post by invisible »

bradleyjoyce wrote: post #21
davidu wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$120/year is not worth it to me. $10/year would be. Just my feedback. :-)

we tried yearly pricing and it turned out to be a big pain.. people forgot about their subscriptions and we're confused/angry when it renewed, people's credit card numbers changed or expired after a year and caused subscriptions to expire, etc etc... $10/yr pricing on a monthly subscription doesn't work because there are just too many fees. Appreciate the feedback though... still trying to figure out the right price.

Which fees? If you mean credit card processing fees, then even $20 would make more sense, no? You have to remember: your service isn't twitter so I think people would be less inclined to pay a total of $5-10/month. (I don't know this market well enough, but that's my initial takeaway.)

Re: Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets

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Post by rythie »

invisible wrote: post #26
bradleyjoyce wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

we tried yearly pricing and it turned out to be a big pain.. people forgot about their subscriptions and we're confused/angry when it renewed, people's credit card numbers changed or expired after a year and caused subscriptions to expire, etc etc... $10/yr pricing on a monthly subscription doesn't work because there are just too many fees. Appreciate the feedback though... still trying to figure out the right price.

Which fees? If you mean credit card processing fees, then even $20 would make more sense, no? You have to remember: your service isn't twitter so I think people would be less inclined to pay a total of $5-10/month. (I don't know this market well enough, but that's my initial takeaway.)

I'm thinking if they are storing 3 million tweets that's got to be about 900 customers meaning $9000/month in revenue.

Re: Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets

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Post by grinich »

bradleyjoyce wrote: post #8

This is precisely why I built http://tweetsaver.com ... I wanted a nice way to search through ALL my old tweets AND keep them around. I'm always retweeting awesome content, favoriting interesting things, and sometimes I just want to remember what I said without having to click MORE MORE MORE MORE for 100 pages to find it on twitter.com. Maybe someday Twitter will turn on a feature that kills my app, but for now I thi…

How did you decide that price point? Are your operating costs very high?

Re: Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets

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Post by grinich »

rythie wrote: post #14

The library of congress has them, if we could get a copy we could index it all somewhere to re-construct a copy of people's early timelines http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acq... I was thinking recently about getting all the tweets from 2006, it should be about 2 million tweets, so should be possible to fetch by sequentially walking through the ids.

This is great. It's going to be a goldmine for historians in a few years. Twitter is becoming a finger on the pulse of the world.
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