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by tod222 3896 days ago
A penny per character?

This is overpriced by several orders of magnitude and would instantly spark a huge user revolt.

Artificial scarcity as a business model, ugh.

> It could be to Twitter what in-app purchases are to "free-to-play" games like Candy Crush -- a way to skip out of a grind.

Intentionally design your user experience to suck, but it gets better if the user pays.

I don't like your ideas.