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@infernalturtle I suspect they'd only have about 1/20 the number of users left within a month.
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@infernalturtle Based on what happened with #AppDotNet, I doubt #Twitter can get enough paid subscriptions to support their extensive infrastructure. They blew it when they kept crawling to VCs for funding instead of talking federating with Identica, Pownce, Jaiku and so on to spread the cost. Then they sealed their doom when they chose ad-based funding and restricting API access to easily clonable apps (like Klout) instead of usage fees (such as fee-based API access or pay X per month, Y per year).
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... restricting API access to easily clonable apps (like Klout) ...
Unclear phrasing. I meant API uses that improve the user's experience (such as better clients) were restricted, while useless and easily cloned uses such as Klout were favored.
... crawling to VCs for funding instead of talking federating with Identica, Pownce, Jaiku and so on ...
I originally wrote talking about federating, but then I remembered that Twitter did at one point talk about potentially connecting, then changed direction.
Believe it or not, I used to speak and write standard US English, with good grammar and sentence construction and almost no misspellings.
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@infernalturtle Always keeping in mind that I hold the patent on being wrong. ;-)
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@infernalturtle They are still losing a big chunk of money (revenue is 100s of millions of dollars less than expenses each year).
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"2.5 trillion revenue"
Not true. Not even Facebook, a much larger company, has reached a trillion dollars a year in revenues.