Would you pay for Twitter?

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I might pay for a Premium twitter account if I got past the Fail Whale - but a question: wouldn't picking any revenue model put an upper-bound on Twitter's evaluation? I mean, if the Premium account is $5 a month, and you know that 2-5% of users purchase it, then it's pretty easy to figure out what Twitter's revenues are, as a basis for a more scientific evaluation. Maybe, because the current investors have set the evaluation so damn high, they will actually SHUN a lot of the revenue-generating ideas that don't justify the inflated evaluation, thus dooming Twitter to never quite have a model, or to be sold.

I must agree with your comment, but what other revenue options would someone like Twitter have other than advertising?

That's a good question, and if I had a good answer I'd probably be working over at Twitter because from all the speculation about them trying to tie-up their company with Facebook and a host of other large companies, I doubt they know themselves how to generate enough revenues to justify this evaluation they're getting.

I wouldn't pay for Twitter. Period. I don't find it useful at all, nor do I find any meaningful content on it. Maybe I'm still just not getting Twitter, but for the most part, or I'm not following the right people on Twitter, but it's definitely not worth money.

Maybe when I actually find it useful, my opinion will change.

No. The only people I see who will happily pay for twitter are the marketing people. Why would I pay for sharing what I think. They can make money on what I share through ads, though. Or sell the data.

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