Originally Posted by
Karenkcoulter Agreed. The vast majority if people aren't going to pay for it and without advertising I do t see how they can be self-supporting. The free account is too limiting for people to really get a feel for the service.
I think the biggest issue is that they are nearly an exact copy of Twitter. Everyone's already setup with Twitter and the general public won't switch. All my friends on App.net are my "geeky" friends and not anyone I consider a general user. Maybe they can tweak the approach and make some changes to get a better target and grab more users.
Everyone I know also said its just too much effort to keep things posted to Twitter and then repost specific things to App.net.
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