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Comment by davidu | Hacker News Reader

$120/year is not worth it to me. $10/year would be. Just my feedback. :-)

You can run Tweetnest yourself http://pongsocket.com/tweetnest/ so that's free, here's mine: http://tweets.rythie.com/ for example.

There are other solutions around if you look.

Seconding Tweetnest. It doesn't save the favorites, unless they're by yourself, but it's a nice compromise.

And it's worked without a hitch.

I agree with Tweetnest. It's an easy and free way to have a backup of all your tweets.

It's nice that it groups tweets by mont and day, so you can pinpoint that one tweet you tweeted that day. Got mine running here: http://jarqu.es/t/

we tried yearly pricing and it turned out to be a big pain.. people forgot about their subscriptions and we're confused/angry when it renewed, people's credit card numbers changed or expired after a year and caused subscriptions to expire, etc etc... $10/yr pricing on a monthly subscription doesn't work because there are just too many fees. Appreciate the feedback though... still trying to figure out the right price.

Which fees? If you mean credit card processing fees, then even $20 would make more sense, no? You have to remember: your service isn't twitter so I think people would be less inclined to pay a total of $5-10/month. (I don't know this market well enough, but that's my initial takeaway.)

I'm thinking if they are storing 3 million tweets that's got to be about 900 customers meaning $9000/month in revenue.

I recently signed up for http://tweetstreamapp.com. $5 for a year of weekly backups, and they do some neat data visualizations, too. Well worth the fiver.

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