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Re:What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit by fbuilesv on Friday November 16, 2012 @02:16PM (#4795367)
I've always wondered why Twitter doesn't do something like this. Why wouldn't they change their rules to something like: Once you have more than 100k users you pay us 5-10% of every copy of your software sold. If your app's free then you don't pay anything.

I'm pretty sure developers would agree to something like this and Twitter could get some extra money that they're not getting right now.

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Re:What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit by pteredactyl on Saturday November 17, 2012 @03:47AM (#4797656)
Yea, that's not a bad idea. But who knows what their actual revenue or capital situation is. Just like Facebook, transparency is an issue.

I participate in these services, but I know full well whatever I post is market research.

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