[jsnell]

That's worldwide. Their revenue per US user from ads is $4/month. Selling an ad-free subscription for $3/month can't work for them just from those numbers, and it gets worse when you consider that Apple will be taking 30% of the latter but not the former.

[angulardragon03]

You can subscribe outside of the App Store, and I’d likely pay more than $4 a month to see only tweets, without ads. The only thing holding me back from paying for something like TweetBot is that Twitter has intentionally hobbled notifications for third-party apps.

[X6S1x6Okd1st]

It can work it just wouldn't be profit maximizing in the short term