@zeynep Micropayments have been a pipe dream for years. Won't work for many reasons: commodification; cost of transaction....
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@jeffjarvis No, Never been a solid attempt to put micropayments in a publisher ecology at scale. If Evernote can exist, so can this. - Show replies
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@dangillmor@jeffjarvis@zeynep: This is basically what Blendle is doing in Netherlands and Germany -- don't think it will work in U.S. -
@mathewi@dangillmor@jeffjarvis Americans are a weird species of people? they pay for books, music, TV, films etc. etc. - Show replies
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@dangillmor@jeffjarvis@zeynep: I'm not sure that would be much better than Facebook or Apple doing it, to be honest -
@mathewi@dangillmor@jeffjarvis@zeynep we need a system to monetize news; even headlines have value. But who does it, who do we trust?
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@Chanders@jeffjarvis@mathewi@dangillmor Exactly. And writing is on the wall with ads. An arms race with adblockers+all advertisers to FB.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@janwinter15@jeffjarvis@mathewi@dangillmor It works at its scale, and these models will work even better at larger scale.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@dangillmor@mathewi@thejongardner@jeffjarvis Risk conversation has to include that the ad model is basically dead unless you're FB etc.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@AlexanderNL Total revenue paid out? Revenue paid per payee?@janwinter15@zeynep@mathewi@dangillmorThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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