[superkuh]

They chose this model because it is what they were already doing as smugmug (who just bought twitter). Any reasoning is just rationalization.

[jzawodn]

Smugmug bought Flickr, not Twitter.

[superkuh]

Oops. Yeah, obviously that's what I meant. I was working on twitter scraping perl scripts at the time.

[SmellyGeekBoy]

If it's a business model that worked for them with SmugMug then why not? Flickr has been decaying for years, it's about time someone turned it into a viable business again.