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I'd ditch my account. There are other ways to accomplish the community-building and networking. - Ladybug Heather
$0.00 +Heather - Carmen
EDIT: Whoops, I just posted an anti-TweetValue rant. I should've said "I like microblogging but the internet will route around twitter if it stops being so useful". - Daniel J. Pritchett
same - Shevonne Polastre
$0.00 - Why paying when there are dozens of services that do the same or much more for free? - Ryo
I don't know Ryo - you build ties on a platform, friends, contacts, followers, and unless everyone agreed to move to the same other platform (which might also need to charge as soon as the volume hit it) you'd be starting from scratch again. I am unsure what I would do if they did charge, and I guess it would depend on the pricing model chosen. Say it was $8/year, the price of what, 2 coffees? - Joelle Nebbe
It is interesting to think about how the pricing would work. Who gets the biggest value? The people who tweet a lot? The people who have lots of people following them? The cell phone companies with their data plans? The companies that want to mine the stream for information and insight? - Seth Gottlieb
$0. exactly. - Nathan Chase
It's interesting how many people want services, but aren't willing to pay for them. I don't see any service staying alive for long without a revenue stream. - Joey Gibson
buck a month, micropayment - Gregory Lent
If I were a company with customers, I'd be willing to pay for Twitter to support my social marketing efforts, such as customer support and outreach, branding, relationship management, surveys, and so forth. - Rod Bauer
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somethng between 1 and 3 dollars a month I guess.but I think I would wanna have a few more features and a pretty good iphone app for that money. - Sebastian Küpers
buck a month, micropayment² - Rodrigo Jaroszewski
$1 a month - Tom Mack
What are they going to give me for $$$ that they already haven't? Would kill for stats I suppose. Probably embedded pictures and video. - Dion Hinchcliffe
I'd have to say: wait and see what the rest of the community does. The reason I use twitter is that there are so many people on it...if that dropped off because of a fee, then I'd go somewhere else with everyone else...if it seemed like most people were staying on, then I'd be willing to pay maybe a few bucks a month - Louis Simoneau
Joelle, I did that with Friendfeed, too. Started from scratch. Why not? Otherwise no new, better service would have a chance ever. And, when a service is free, I see no problem for friends to move to the new service or combining it (twitterfeed or rss to xyz), instead of pushing others to pay for "being friends". No way. In addition, if Friendfeed would do that, I would go, too, and it has tons of more features than Twitter. Twitter is obsolete anyway, even for no costs. - Ryo
Ryo - that is a fair point, but I started with FF because I really rated what they were trying to do. It didnt replace anything for me. I think it is when they added imaginary friends and custom feeds, i was hooked. Then @FOWA when I heard first hand where they were going, and that they were willing to discuss it all so openly, I suddenly moved to use FF more. Moving to something identical just because of a charge makes less sense, the time is a cost too. - Joelle Nebbe
I suspect companies and marketeers might pay to use twitter - it is a great tool, used smartly, to have easy (as in light in cost and resources) conversations with the customer base. I would say twitter is indeed easily replaced, but that infrastructure is not cheap, so the problem would recur. Or things might go open, with a microblogging network of products all interchanging, through a network structure like that of newsgroups or irc. Share the costs around. That might be interesting to try - Joelle Nebbe
$0.This is Real Web life. - Igor Poltavskiy
Nowt, I'm afraid. I only pay for about 2 social-type accounts, and that's because they offer a really big incentive. As standard, Twitter is awesome and my biggest addiction, but a payment barrier would see a large number of those people migrate very quickly. - Badger Gravling
$1/year - I do understand that there's no money making idea here, and advertisements in my stream would make me quit - clarke thomas
$0, I'd close my account. - Bob
$0 and move onto another free platform - Sally Church
