Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
by zerocrates on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:08PM
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Yeah by "sell ads" here I mean "do the whole data collection, targeting, whatever" deal that the platforms do.
Discord... definitely different. It's hard for me to believe that Nitro really can be paying for Discord but I guess it's possible?
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Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
by joshuaissac on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:57PM
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> Forbes estimated 1 million people are using Nitro as of 2020, and they made $130 million in revenue in 2020. If you assume that's all the $10/month Nitro (not the cheaper Nitro Classic), then 1 million users paying for Nitro would only account for a pretty small percentage of that. If the Nitro users estimate is accurate, not sure where the rest comes from.
1 million users * $10/month/user * 12 months/year = $120 million/year
That is close to the cited $130m annual revenue.
I don't think just selling ads is sufficient; especially if it's not a service you can operate at a relatively low cost with a skeleton crew. I think it's probably either that or start charging for something. (Unless your goal isn't to ever make a profit, I suppose.)
Discord seemed to make it work (I think?) by combining an initial semi-skeleton crew approach with a freemium charging approach. They tried a few other things, but I think those efforts flopped.