Comments on: Protecting Twitter from its own hubris

By: Zoonie

Zoonie — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:21:08 +0000

I think the calls to create a subscription option for regular users who wished to protect their archive, have better searching and opt out of advertising (and other minor benefits) was mooted within about 3 months of Twitter existing.

Although they dismissed it at the time, if 10% of the customer base had taken up the subscription option, even at a $2 cpm option, that would have by now proved to be a considerable income earner, putting them in a far more solid financial position, on top of the ad revenue.

As someone who primarily uses a Private account, I have always loved Twitter but I hear more dissent daily, and as someone who doesn’t want to use FB as a primary mode of communication, I wish they’d sort themselves out so I and we have to move on.

By: LoraineAntrim

LoraineAntrim — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 13:15:08 +0000

Communicating in an open and shared environment is what is fueling social media today. By cutting off the reciprocity with LinkedIn, Twitter is cutting off some of the gas that fuels its platform. Not the best tactic. Loraine Antrim

By: Ther

Ther — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:16:40 +0000

The Internet has become a good place to have friends and a bad place to have adversaries.

Friends share. And when they don’t, there’s an app for that!