[otrahuevada]

Facebook makes maybe about 30USD a year from any given profile:

> https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a212721...

Being relatively optimistic about Twitter's size, and assuming they're just fantastic at it, Twitter might make what, half of that? So for 3$ a month you need about half of the userbase to be on board for data munging to no longer make sense as a business model.

I do wonder how high that mark is though, every SAAS I've worked with has been pay-to-use from the start, so this is not a metric I'm familiar with.

[contravariant]

What's weird here is that I would estimate it to be very difficult to find a person who generated over 30USD of revenue through ads for anyone other than the people selling the ads.

But maybe my worldview is wrong here, I'm definitely not the right person to estimate Facebook's reach.

[sodality2]

Reminds me of: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half."

[bookofjoe]

John Wanamaker; https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/wanamaker_h...

[webmaven]

> So for 3$ a month you need about half of the userbase to be on board for data munging to no longer make sense as a business model.

I think you might be assuming that advertising revenue is evenly distributed among users.

[otrahuevada]

Twitter Blue is being offered at 3$