Would you pay to use Twitter?
According to SitePoint:
Author and investor Guy Kawasaki posted a poll today asking, “How much would you pay to use Twitter?” Surprisingly, about 50% said they would pay some amount, the majority thinking the service worth $5 per month.
........
In fact, in an April poll on TechCrunch, about 25% of respondents said they would pay to have ads removed on Twitter if they service started putting ads in the feed (and 50% supported the idea of ads — which might be a better way to generate revenue than to charge end users directly).
The full article can be found here.
I would be willing to pay to remove ads from Twitter if they existed. I am not a huge fan of having to pay for the service though. I have always wondered how Twitter makes its money without ads or payment options.
Links for 11/20/08
Combining Twitter and World of Warcraft
I recently finished a project of incorporating Twitter into my World of Warcraft guilds website. The ultimate goal of this feature was to have an additional way of communicating with those outside of the game who do not have regular access to the guild forums.
For those who don't know: Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? -Twitter.
Twitters limit of 140 characters gives the perfect amount of space to get the important details across while not giving too much room to stray off topic. One of the highlights of this project is that a Twitter account is NOT required to utilize this feature. The messages can be viewed by RSS feed, Sidebar on the guilds website, and of course on Twitter.
All "tweets" posted on the guild forums are under the account @WKto - The format of all posts are in the format of [Username] - Message. This seems to be working out great so far. Usernames are pulled the current Session the user is logged into on the forums. I chose to do it that way because usually forum names tend to match up with in game names.
The feature has been released less then 36 hours ago, but already seems to be catching on. I believe in the coming weeks it will become a great addition to the website!
Twhirl and Growl
I am a recent convert to Twhirl. It is my new favorite Twitter client. I formally used Twitterific. Twitterific is a great client still in my opinion, but the ads were a bit distracting and I didn't want to pay the $15 dollars for the full version (Okay, so I may be a little cheap, but I can't see a reason to pay for something when there are free alternatives.) The only feature I see Twhirl missing is Growl. I asked @twhirl (on twitter) if supporting Growl was planned to be supported. As of now, its not and doesn't look like it is going to be anytime soon.
I believe the lack of support is a limitation of Adobe Air rather then Twhirl. Air tries to be multi compatible with different operating systems while Growl is a OSX only application. Hopefully some day Twhirl will offer support for Growl. Its not a ruiner for me personally, It has its own notification system that doesn't interfere with Growl. It would just be nice to have one notification system running since all other applications I use have support for Growl (where necessary).
- @TomCristino44 I hate to break it to you but it's actually .25 per text sent and .20 per received w/o international texting. in reply to TomCristino44 15 hrs ago
- Watching Fragments. "1,392 Deaths Earlier..." #torchwood 16 hrs ago
- I bought 1 item off of eBay tonight. I am up to 8 emails relating to said item. 1 day ago
- Watching 'The Five Doctors' #classicwho 1 day ago
- WOW. @Linode support took 2 minutes to answer an email support question about their automated backup system. I LOVE this company. 1 day ago
- More updates...
Categories
Currently Reading
