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I came up with a good explanation for the "vision" of app.net:

A replacement for traditional communication (instant messaging) that is built into everything.

...that will never get built into everything if everybody has to pay to use it.

I personally think Twitter is missing the boat by not offering a tiered model, whereby members can pay to avoid ads (and perhaps other things, such as access to their complete tweet history).

Flickr offers this and I have always enjoyed having the option.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/21/you-might-be-able-to-downlo...

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