Comments on: Twitter supporters try to fund improvements http://www.140char.com/2008/06/twitter-supporters-try-to-fund-improvements/ Microblogging news, tools and resources: Twitter, Google Buzz, Tumblr, Identi.ca, Yammer, Posterous Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:38:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Chris Reed http://www.140char.com/2008/06/twitter-supporters-try-to-fund-improvements/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Chris Reed Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:23:27 +0000 http://www.140char.com/?p=13#comment-3 Thanks for the mention Dan. One of those things - between coming up with the idea/buying the url and launching the site, Twitter was handed $15M- $20M on a plate. Which has dampened potential donors' appetites a bit I suspect. Hey ho. But, even if we don't meet the amount of money the VCs have injected - the other thing that I'm trying to do with www.twitterfund.com is to suss out how Twitter's users would like to see it develop/fund it's future. So the vote on there will be interesting. Will people be happy to pay a monthly fee? Or have ads (but will that work for advertisers, too - I suspect not)? Or maybe voluntary donations will be the model which both keeps users, and keeps twitter afloat. Watch this space. Anyway - hope to meet you in the real world sometime soon. Next measurement camp perhaps? Chris Thanks for the mention Dan. One of those things – between coming up with the idea/buying the url and launching the site, Twitter was handed $15M- $20M on a plate. Which has dampened potential donors’ appetites a bit I suspect. Hey ho.

But, even if we don’t meet the amount of money the VCs have injected – the other thing that I’m trying to do with http://www.twitterfund.com is to suss out how Twitter’s users would like to see it develop/fund it’s future. So the vote on there will be interesting.

Will people be happy to pay a monthly fee? Or have ads (but will that work for advertisers, too – I suspect not)? Or maybe voluntary donations will be the model which both keeps users, and keeps twitter afloat. Watch this space.

Anyway – hope to meet you in the real world sometime soon. Next measurement camp perhaps?

Chris

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