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Re: Twitter sees the light

Edmund — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:32:26 -0000

Inevitable, I guess - no such thing as a free lunch. But there's no way I'm going to pay to have news pushed to me (which is how I used Twitter, in conjunction with Twitterfeed's clever RSS tweeting system), when I can always go and fetch it for free when the fancy takes me.

Re: Twitter sees the light

James Whatley — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:34:21 -0000

As I said on Twitter just a little while ago (in response to Nacho actually) re: The apparent 'Death' of Twitter:

"The End of Twitter" ? Just because we've stopped getting SMS? Yeah, right. Like it matters. They have a phrase in the US that goes:

"Saying you're big in the UK is like saying you're the most popular guy in New Jersey"

- Bad news for brits, but not for Biz (Stone - Founder of Twitter).

Re: Twitter sees the light

Ewan — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:32:06 -0000

Because no one will pay for it...

It's all very well getting woken up by a Tweet saying 'Just ate a brilliant
cupcake' -- i.e. something highly irrelevant. But when you've had to pay
for the privilege yourself, that's where the wheels fall off.

Re: Twitter sees the light

Sampha — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:31:31 -0000

I'm on Twitter, with quite a few followers, and I follow a few (BBC News mainly), and I've never recieved an outgoing message from them.

I'm not too hung up on the idea of a premium Twitter, and for the normobs out there (even myself), I wouldn't ever invest in it. I can't say anyone's Twitterings are that important to me.

I'll be interested to see what comes of this though.

Samantha.

Re: Twitter sees the light

Chris & Helen at LG — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:03:33 -0000

It's a shame but as you say - texts cost money and someone has to pay. Judging from the buzz on Twitter this morning lots of people are suggesting they launch a paid-for premium service to enable texts - I wonder why they didn't think of it?