1) Hundreds of Thousands of Twitter members who are unable to follow even those who are following them and are well under limit and ratio

2) Thousands of Twitter members suspended without any fault of there’s OR due to some stupid Third party untrusted app they signed up for.

This is becoming the biggest problem on Twitter worldwide!

However in a true Social Media / New Media world we don’t need limits but all said and done 2000 is preety decent figure!

That’s me on Twitter see you guys:

http://twitter.com/KIPL

The idea that it should be totally free is beyond my thought process. We have been given a luxury from the folks at Twitter for far too long. At some point, they have to make some money from something. It isn’t fair to them to expect that they are going to keep this great service up and running for free forever. Whether the money they receive is in the form of subscriber fees or advertising – they have to be compensated eventually.

I have said it elsewhere and I will say it again – all this talk of $10 per month or so many $s per number of follows is a nonsense! Most people would simply abandon Twitter and walk away, leaving just commercial entities who wouldn’t see any point in paying to be where the public aren’t! At $1 per month or $10 per year in advance to be a membe, most of us could and would afford it and pay willingly, regardless of numbers in our follower/folllowing groups.This represents an enormous amount of money across the Twitter population. If Twitter wanted to charge commercial clients an additional amount and give them some extra goodies, so be it, but imposing advertising on people’s pages without their say-so would be a good way to empty twitter of a significant number of people, I think.

I would have paid $1 a month or $10 for a year (say after a free 30-day trial) of Twitter with great pleasure, even though there were very few people following me at that point. Why do people always talk about charging the sort of money that people have to think twice about instead of asking for a negligible fee on the basis that sheer numbers will make that a very desirable income for the website owners without putting off potential clients?

Business people need to learn how to think like non-business people if they are ever to figure out how to get their custom! That’s my 2 cents-worth (if it’s even worth that much! LOL) and thanks for a thought-provoking article :-)