[axg11]

Without the ads business, Twitter will be operating at huge loss, much larger than recent times. The best way to monetize attention is through ads. I'm not saying that I am happy with that, but there is a lot of evidence to suggest that subscriptions will lead to much lower revenue/profit than ads. There's a reason why no other social media platform has ever succeeded through a subscription model.

[corobo]

Have any tried? The only one I can think of close to social is the forum Something Awful, which did (does?) pretty good for itself

[bombcar]

Something Awful ended pretty awfully, at least for the founder.

[drawfloat]

It was making a lot of revenue and even got a (for the time) huge buyout offer. Lowtax being a mangosteen addict with a deeply troubled personal life who couldn't be bothered to take advantage of any of these opportunities/organise an effective was the main issue.

[irthomasthomas]

And for that moderator who was killed in the attack on Benghazi.

[nerfhammer]

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