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Re:Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account by donohoe on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:18AM (#12978132)
I disagree - I've been requesting this on-and-off for years.

In the same way I passively pay Netflix to be able to stream movies, I'm happy to passively pay Twitter each month for the flow of conversation if it allows them to exist in the long-run, and get better.

If its viable for them to charge me $7 to $10 a month so I get an ad-free experience and they can wean off ads as main revenue source, then great. Sign me up.

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Re:Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account by cevaris on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:33AM (#12978291)
Netflix is currenlty billions in debt, http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-raising-800-million-i...
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Re:Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account by binarymax on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:43AM (#12978377)
Which needs to be put in the context of its 6.78B in revenue.
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Re:Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account by basseq on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:01AM (#12978568)
Debt in of itself isn't a bad thing. Apple has $79 billion in debt. Facebook has $3B in debt. Microsoft is $60B in debt.
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Re:Proposal to Twitter. I want to pay for my account by samfisher83 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:04AM (#12978609)
They have debt because they don't want to move money from foreign accounts to the US so they borrow money to pay dividends, but they don't have net debt.
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