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(By Eyleen Tavy)
If you're reading SFist, chances are you're familiar with local social media company Twitter (and if you're not, well, Eye on Blogs' Brittney Gilbert is more than happy to explain it to you in the video clip above.)
Now, we like Twitter (maybe not as much as Brittney does -- we're really not expecting it to save us from slaughter any time soon), but if there's one thing the tragic loss of Kozmo.com taught us, it's that just because we and everyone we know like and use a product doesn't mean it's going to make enough money to stick around forever.
While the internet is full of people who want to tell Twitter how to make money (yeah, that's only one link, hardly "full of," but trust us, it's out there), at present it's getting even less from users than the pittance we shelled out to Kozmo for schlepping DVDs, magazines, and ice cream to our apartment. Which makes us uncomfortable with making anything other than the most gentle of criticisms (unlike some when we think something completely sucks, we just don't use it anymore. Novel concept, we know).
But if Twitter started to have a fee associated with it, as some have suggested, would you still use it -- especially given its spotty technical record? Would you object to Twitter ads if that meant they'd be able to upgrade the architecture to make it more reliable? Or do you think it's all a bunch of dot com hooey?
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I would pay people to stop using Twitter
Do you mean pay to write with it or read it? and, uh, no. to all of it.
When did sara gilbert start doing the news?
I would pay a little if it meant not seeing the Fail Whale so much. Also, I have wonder if it cost something, would there be fewer obvious spam accounts? Would that cut down on the traffic?
Since they're presumably holding out to flip it for hundreds of millions to google or whoever, they should pay me for using it.
No. Would I start paying for services like Facebook? No. For SFist? No. I just feel entitled to get everything for free online.
Why when someone else will set up something just like it 10 minutes later?
I don't really see what is so special about twitter.
Aha-ha. Surely you jest.
As soon as I start paying for services like twitter, facebook, etc., then I'll feel like a legit stalker, rather than just a "curious onlooker."
Also, Gavin needs a twitter.
.. just saying.
No, but I would pay a restaurant/bar/cafe surcharge if they installed cellphone jammers. Or turn it into a jukebox-like device and feed quarters/dollar bills into it.
Oh hai, that's me. Except my name is spelled like this. --->
Thanks for the link!
@Largo01
"No. Would I start paying for services like Facebook? No. For SFist? No. I just feel entitled to get everything for free online."
And yet, somehow, this internet economy just keeps rolling along. We left reality behind sometime in the '90s.