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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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