A Fee-Based Twitter Is No More Ideologically Pure Than An Ad-Supported Twitter

Re:A Fee-Based Twitter Is No More Ideologically Pure Than An... by jfb on Monday August 13, 2012 @04:52PM (#4378090)

This is a nonsensical article. Ideology doesn't enter into it; say rather, a firm that sells directly to the user is open to market pressure from those users in a way that a firm that sells their users to a third party simply isn't.

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Re:A Fee-Based Twitter Is No More Ideologically Pure Than An... by grippi on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @02:27AM (#4379672)

Agreed. Instilling a price tag for users legitimizes its utility (to a certain degree).

However, what bothers me most about this article is that it's so black-and-white, alluding to the existence of only two pricing models out there: Ads or money up-front. No where does this article mention the possibility for a VRM-based (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Main_Page) revenue model, attribution-licensing model, etc.

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