Comments on: If Twitter Charges, Users Would Pay: Survey

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:23:53 +0000

twittr is the most boreing and rediculous thing on the internet.

By: eelcoh

eelcoh — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:55:04 +0000

The question should not be whether the current user base would pay, it should be whether it would be possible to attract new users if these have to pay for the service. I think not. And let’s face it, Twitter might be popular in some circles, but it is nowhere near mainstream.

By: Insidious the Walrus

Insidious the Walrus — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:37:23 +0000

If Twitter starts charging individual users, I could see a domino effect happening. A handful of users would opt out, encouraging users in their networks to opt out, too, since they can no longer communicate. And so on, and so forth. All in all, I can’t imagine it would be a good decision.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:24:58 +0000

I have never even been to that website, but if it is just another social site, when they start charging people will just leave for the free sites.

By: anaman

anaman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:51:24 +0000

i would never pay them. most ppl who have a lot of friends would rather setup their own laconica sites to handle their own twitter like communications.
twitter is overloaded with completely random conversations. smaller specialised twitter sites are needed.

By: KamenLee

KamenLee — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:40:31 +0000

I already have one foot out the door anyway, no way in heck I would pay for Twitter... Go ahead and do inline ads like Facebook or sidebar ads like Digg, but if you charge for the service, expect to lose more than 80% of the user base. Saying Twitter is worth $5 a month and actually paying for it are two very different things. Twitter: @kamenlee Web: www.kamenlee.com

By: michael

michael — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:39:51 +0000

Pay? No way – not when there are other alternatives out there…

I would pay if there was an extra level of services on top of the current ones that made it worthwhile.

By: ABM

ABM — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:13:29 +0000

Free to the user means advertising to offset the cost. Pay equals minimal to no advertising to offset the cost.

By: andy

andy — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:00:23 +0000

@antiquerze

And how do users get serious? By trying it out. If the “casual user” is forced to pay, Twitter is going to see a massive decrease in in new membership, which will definitely prevent Twitter from going to the “next level.”

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:02:50 +0000

I would pay if it were something like $1 per month. Just charge $12 per year and it would be fair to me. If everyone paid it, Twitter should be able to easily pay for its running costs.