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It really does not scale. Charging users after a certain threshold of messages is a silly idea. Can you imagine if Facebook charged after a certain number of status updates and photos shared? It's not that it doesn't make as much money, it's that people would have quickly jumped ship.


> Can you imagine if Facebook charged after a certain number of status updates and photos shared?

I can't, and neither can you, because it doesn't and it hasn't really been tried in a popular app.

Whether it's as obvious as you think that it doesn't scale and/or it wouldn't work, people would jump ship etc remains to be determined.




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