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Re:Twitter is Growing Like Crazy: Up 422% in 12 Months by iigs on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @07:48PM (#307710)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=300541

everybody wins [...]except for the heavy users

That's a bad alignment to have if you want to make money. You especially want your biggest users to win. ISP bandwidth caps are a textbook example of how ISPs are struggling with this issue as we speak.

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Re:Twitter is Growing Like Crazy: Up 422% in 12 Months by thomasmallen on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @08:43PM (#307744)
Right but downloading a DVD is definitely more demanding on any network than routing text messages and micro-blog posts. The revenue would make the product far more compelling for every-day use because there would be a guarantee of reliability, funded by subscription fees or rates. But infrequent users could use it for free (cap free messaging), and see ads.
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