I’ll never use this crap but $1 a year is smart. People will sign up for it because it’s nothing and that gives twitter a foot in the door for price hikes later.
A decade of App Store user behavior refusing to pay $0.99 one time for an app vs. using an app for free tells a different story.
99.99% of app store apps are not worth $0.99 and are easily replaced by free web based alternatives or the built in apps
The seemingly smartest thing about it is that it’s reportedly for just new users. Many/most power users might stay. But huge numbers of casual (but otherwise active and monetizable) users would just drop off rather that go through the process of adding their payment info.
this would turn me off as a new user. it's already hard to look at tweets if you aren't a user.
In what world does raising the price from free to $1 lower the barrier for signing up?
the difference between free and $1 is enormous
It massively raises the barrier for signing up, but drastically reduces the barriers to squeeze more money out of those that do down the line.