Here's Why People Are Backing App.net
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Here's Why People Are Backing App.net
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#2They could run it from a non-profit instead of a private company. Would be an interesting experiment!
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#3I like Twitter. I don't mind the ads. And Twitter is close to letting us download our own archived tweets: http://searchengineland.com/twitter-tweet-archive-tool-comin...
If ads interrupted my experience, then maybe it would become a pain point worth addressing or paying for. Until then, I'll stick with the free, ad-supported Twitter.
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#4It seems like a weird decision that they don't stick to the 140-character limit.
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#5I like Twitter. I don't mind the ads. And Twitter is close to letting us download our own archived tweets: http://searchengineland.com/twitter-tweet-archive-tool-comin... If ads interrupted my experience, then maybe it would become a pain point worth addressing or paying for. Until then, I'll stick with the free, ad-supported Twitter.
I don't know. Twitter said they were going to launch annotations in the API, too, and that never materialized.
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#6I like Twitter. I don't mind the ads. And Twitter is close to letting us download our own archived tweets: http://searchengineland.com/twitter-tweet-archive-tool-comin... If ads interrupted my experience, then maybe it would become a pain point worth addressing or paying for. Until then, I'll stick with the free, ad-supported Twitter.
Ads are not the problem, the problem is the implications of being ad-supported. How it affects policy and decision-making.
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#7https://join.app.net/
People aren't backing join.app.net. Are they really going to find 300k in a week, when they have raised only just half that after such a long time?
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#8Any time I can transition a service that is important to me to one in which I am the customer, I grab that opportunity quickly.
I'd happily pay gmail $10/month for mail in which I was the customer, and not the advertisers. $4/month for a user supported twitter environment sounds like a bargain - particularly as all the people I suspect I want to "follow" (or whatever the join.app.net terminology will be) - have already pledged their support for app.net.
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#9I backed this almost immediately, and expected them to be a lot closer to the goal than they are now (still more than $300,000 off with only seven days to go). I'm very surprised with the apparent lack of resonance with the idea from people around here.
So what are some of the reasons you aren't backing?
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#10I backed this almost immediately, and expected them to be a lot closer to the goal than they are now (still more than $300,000 off with only seven days to go). I'm very surprised with the apparent lack of resonance with the idea from people around here. So what are some of the reasons you aren't backing?
I either don't have time to understand, or it hasn't been made clear to me what it is and how it's going to save my life/money/family time.