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[App.net](http://App.net "App.net"){rel="nofollow" target="_blank"} is indeed a very interesting, well, web app. But i don\'t see it becoming Twitter competitor in the near future. It\'s more an experiment of a business model and one that i think still needs to be tinkered with for a long, long time before it finally gains a traction. The \$50/year is problematically high for a social network. A LOT of people, especially regular people who don\'t care a lot about the integrity of the company behind their social network will be turned off by this. Unless Twitter starts placing the dick bar in every client they owned, i don\'t see it possible that people will start looking to [app.net](http://app.net "app.net"){rel="nofollow" target="_blank"}. Even then, i still can see another competitor rising up with a better pricing (or even free) to join. Another factor is the complete removal of the random factor; i\'d imagine there will be no random or parody username seeing as you need to pay \$50 for a single username. You also can\'t experiment a lot without thinking about the cost. The bottomline is i think they need to consider about having a hybrid business model where user can choose wether to see ads or pay the 50 bucks. Do you agree? --- **Source:** [https://my.remarkbox.com/5d10ff65-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501](https://my.remarkbox.com/5d10ff65-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501) **Snapshot:** 2026-05-06T13:07:25Z **Generator:** Remarkbox `763cacb`