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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by ssclafani on Thursday August 16, 2012 @09:30PM (#4394610)
People who say that Twitter should just charge pro users don't get what Twitter is trying to achieve. Twitter doesn't want to be a million-dollar business, they want to be a billion-dollar business. They wont get there by charging users. Not even close.
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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by MBCook on Thursday August 16, 2012 @09:59PM (#4394696)
Of course their plan to become a billion-dollar business could causes them to become a zero-dollar business.

The problem is that they seem to be overreaching, and doing it in what may be a self-destructive manor.

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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by Retric on Friday August 17, 2012 @09:43AM (#4396273)
A 20% shot at a 5 billion dollar bushiness may be a perfectly rational choice on their part.
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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by Steko on Thursday August 16, 2012 @10:22PM (#4394783)
Pretty sure the list of companies that have made billions charging users is nonzero.

Text messaging has certainly been driven by user fees. If you look at the tv market it's moved from primarily ad driven to primarily fee driven.

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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by debacle on Friday August 17, 2012 @10:06AM (#4396382)
You're not going to make billions charging only ~10% of your userbase.
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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by Steko on Friday August 17, 2012 @12:55PM (#4397413)
If you have a billion users and you charge .1% of them $1,000 that's $1 billion. If you charge another 1% of them $100 that's another $1 billion. If you charge another 10% of them $10 that's another $1 billion. That's $3 billion already and we're just playing with rough numbers.
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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by Ralith on Friday August 17, 2012 @01:06PM (#4397474)
How large is Twitter's userbase?
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