[moey]

Serious question people, out of the people here that USE Twitter, how much would you pay a month for Twitter, if anything?

http://directpoll.com/v?XDVhEtRR2EAlaVw2sOrQkWlBcohF0N2Z

I value the service, and am wondering what other people value it at.

I will post the results here after set number of people vote.

UPDATE Initially I was going to wait a little longer, but after looking at the results from this sample, the trend is pretty be predictable.

RESULTS LINK: (VIEW AFTER VOTING PLEASE) http://directpoll.com/r?XDVhEtRR2EAlaVw2sOrQkWlBcohFw9na8aNc...

I think the results deserve a discussion on their own...

[petercooper]

That's a tricky question, because while I would pay, say, $5 per month for it, if every existing user had to pay $5 for it, the value would decrease significantly as most people probably wouldn't pay that much and it'd decrease my reach. If I were to pay merely for added benefits over what I have now, it entirely depends on what they would be..

[lfowles]

Your poll is blocked at work, but I would feel comfortable paying per outgoing tweet, somewhat like SMS. In fact, let's extend that with two plans:

    $20/mo unlimited tweets  

    1¢/tweet, top up your account a dollar at a time

[declan]

I used Twitter quite a bit for work purposes (before I left CNET/CBS last year to found a recommendation startup) and might have paid for it then.

But the value for me was in interacting with a large number of people, and I suspect even charging a few dollars a year would lead to the vast majority of accounts disappearing, reducing the remaining users' incentive to pay, leading to more accounts disappearing, etc.

[moey]

Lets say one had to pay 1 cent to tweet, don't you think that the quality of data would be much better? A lot of spam bots would be out of business.

[learnstats2]

I am a Twitter user but only because of social network inertia. If they charged me $0.01 once, I'd happily take the opportunity to leave.

On the other hand, I would happily pay (today) for something that gave me full control over my content.

[gre]

I'm not a twitter power user, so what exactly do you want to control about your twitter content? More than just deleting tweets/pictures? Serious question.

[learnstats2]

The complaints about Twitter on this forum all basically follow the same theme: Twitter won't let me do such-and-such when I try to read/write the content, or Twitter forces me to read/write in such a way. You can read each of those at your own leisure.

The major shareholder of the article wants Twitter to provide a more Facebook-style algorithm-decides-what-you-read, which Twitter indeed seem to be insistently experimenting with. That's a major turn-off for me and I think a misjudgement. People currently move from Facebook to Twitter as their primary social network because of exactly that problem. Personally, I want to decide for myself.

I like to see my network content, the content that I have already curated for myself, in chronological order. For whatever reason, social networks would prefer me not to have easy access to that any more.

Ideally, I would like to have the ability to take everything I have written on Twitter (content that I have provided) and easily transfer it to an alternative host.

I would like Twitter to give me the freedom to do that - so that I don't feel that I have to do it.

[aaronbrethorst]

http://blog.app.net/2014/05/06/app-net-state-of-the-union/

[moey]

Yeah but this is not app.net. I think paying for something that already serves you useful purpose is different then signing up for a new service.

[aaronbrethorst]

Best of luck, would never work.

[lindig]

The users who have the most to gain from Twitter are those with a huge following as they monetise their following outside of Twitter. Be it that they have something to sell or that they are campaigning. I there would find it reasonable to charge accounts that have more than 1000 followers per tweet a small fee.

[silverbax88]

1000 followers is a pretty miniscule number to be charging.

[arxpoetica]

I can't imagine ever paying for Twitter—but then, I thought it was a joke when I first heard of it, and I was wrong. ;)

[untog]

I don't think the results are particularly surprising. There is a reason Twitter is free, after all.

[afandian]

You much would you pay or how much do you pay? Your message and the poll disagree.

[moey]

Fixed. Thanks

[mahouse]

$0, taking into account what was of app.net