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in principle yes, but it's a flawed idea, after all what's the point of you being up if all of your contacts are offline.... - Duncan Riley

Probably not - would be happy with ads tho - Silverbrow

More than likely no, although it would really depend on what feature(s) paid members receive that would be the determining factor for me. - Scott Jarkoff

if i would own it then ... - kosmar

No more than I pay for Google or Wikipedia - Jill O'Neill

Probably not. Especially if there are other comparable services available. - Bryan Clark

No, because all of my friends would go somewhere else, and then no matter how small the fee, it wouldn't be worth it. - Eric Florenzano

nope - Steve Rubel

Nothing, but I'd be happy for them to pay me. I'm not sure that's the greatest business model, though. - Vince DeGeorge

No i would not, Any free real time messaging app would be my replacement. There is nothing to justify me paying for twitter. - Mike Fruchter

Yes, if the service were reliable - Michael VanDervort

Probably, depending on what the paid service offered. I pay for Flickr every year because of what I get. - Dion Hinchcliffe from twhirl

Yep, it depends. Like Flickr, what do we get? A small annual fee to not have to deal with the outages would be nice. But... we're all on FF now aren't we? That changes the game a bit... - Allen Fuller

no - Sarah Peterman

No I wouldn't. Just like I wouldn't pay for Pownce - Corvida

hum... nope!...via feedalizr - Rafael Dohms

Not at this time. - Chris Rossini

No, most definitely not, especially in its current state - Bob from Alert Thingy

nope. - Jeremy Toeman

I wouldn't. - Morton Fox

I don't mind paying for something if I can be sure it's going to stick around a bit....via feedalizr - Ro (Lilyhill)

They hardly inspire confidence in their product which makes it hard to justify paying for it. Will they ever be in a position to charge given the current state of affairs? And what will paying for Twitter achieve? 99.99% uptime? Prove you can consistently provide the required uptime before going pay. - Gabriel Nijmeh

I think they should offer additional services, grouping friends by category etc - John Cass

No, based on my current usage and the little value I get from it. But yes, if it was as essential to me as some people claim it is to them. - Michael Hocter

Not yet. but maybe if my usage increases....via feedalizr - Larry Huffman

Flat out no.... I would move to Pownce, Jaiku, or FriendFeed - Mike Wills from twhirl

I see it the opposite way. - Steve Rubel

Agree with Steve here - Brian Sullivan

twitter:friendfeed::razr:HTC touch - Jeremy Toeman

I disagree. FriendFeed isn't hard to use, especially not if you use a client like http://www.thwirl.org. Also, Ian is absolutely correct in saying that the iPhone has a deep functionality. - Alexander Falk

Funny, I was thinking twitter is like a feature phone (easy to use, more users) and friendfeed was more like a smartphone (smaller but more passionate user group.) - Aura Mae

Alexander, a lot of the features of FF are, if not hard to use, certainly hard to find for new users. For example, the ability to hide Twitters unless they have comments attached - hard to work out how to do that, or even realise that you can do that, if you don't spend a lot of time exploring. Hence, it's deep - there's lots there - but not much of that is surfaced in well-considered ways. - Ian Betteridge

twitter is to FF what email is to RSS? - Andrew Smith

seriously folks how is friendfeed hard to use ... but yeah I'm not sure about the analogy either. - John Blanton

lots of folks think the iPhone is somewhat complex to use and only use one or two features deeply - Michael Gartenberg

I find Friendfeed's complexity gradient to be better than most. When I actually go looking for a feature (like editing comments), it's often there. But otherwise its features don't get in the way much. Methinks FF's feature hiding is not perfect but it's surprisingly subtle and workable. - Dion Hinchcliffe from twhirl

perhaps general smartphone would have been the better comparison for the sake of the metaphor not the iPhone but I think you get the idea I was trying to conveu - Michael Gartenberg

Aura, that's pretty much the point i was trying to make. i should have left brands out of it - Michael Gartenberg

friendfeed is not user friendly, to Michael's post on whether it is mainstream or not - it clearly isn't. It's still very techie dominated - what you'd expect of early adopters - but I reckon the rest of the world might simply not yet get FF. People are still confused about RSS - Silverbrow