[Hisoka]

It sounds like your best market to pitch to would be startups. And if that's the case, it's a tough sell since they're usually very financially conservative, and they want things that will directly lead them to profit. Simple to use APIs is nice, but I don't know if it's a must-have for startup developers. Most of them want to quickly ship something to market.

If you're targeting the enterprise, keep in mind that developers who code for big companies aren't the ones making the buying decisions. If it's not free or open source, most will not have the initiative to pitch to upper management (they just want to get the least done in the least amt of time so they can go home to their families, and watch TV)

[wolfrom]

We are definitely looking at startups for now, expecting that finding success with startups will naturally lead to interest from larger enterprises.

What I'm hoping to emphasize (and maybe I haven't done that enough) is that startups who are heavily integrated into social services and will see high usage would have a monthly charge, but startups just using Twitter once per user to grab a list of followers wouldn't have to pay more than the $50 license fee unless they had a very large number of users (I like to say a million, but it all depends on the specific API calls).

[originalgeek]

Let's not forget the information leaked to a third party by using such a service. Personally, I'd rather keep the data we collect to ourselves.