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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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