I've toyed with different monetisation strategies over the last couple of years, I even conducted a 6 month survey of what people would be willing to pay. In the end I decided I couldn't justify charging for it and a few months ago I rolled out a "pay-what-you-want" model like AdBlockPlus, during the A/B test on 20% of users I generated just over $100 dollars in the first 2 weeks, then basically nothing - so the annual/monthly model is attractive!
I like the idea of keeping it open source, then those who don't want to pay can still use it - think I may follow your model :)
Hey I've actually come across this extension before! I think I ruled it out instantly due to the name, I believe I thought it was something to do with the streaming site Twitch rather than anything to do with Twitter.
If it helps any the way I was searching was for keyword (not neccesarily these) twitter account switch, twitter clients, etc and opened up a list of things that matched in tabs to then go on and short list. Ruling this out quickly as it seemed to be something to do with Twitch rather than Twitter.
As an aside I'm sorry to say I wouldn't pay anything for something that's just saving me 3 clicks every so often. Needs more functionality.
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Thanks for writing the post, I built a moderately popular extension in 2012 "Twitcher" for switching between twitter accounts (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/twitcher-twitter-a...).
I've toyed with different monetisation strategies over the last couple of years, I even conducted a 6 month survey of what people would be willing to pay. In the end I decided I couldn't justify charging for it and a few months ago I rolled out a "pay-what-you-want" model like AdBlockPlus, during the A/B test on 20% of users I generated just over $100 dollars in the first 2 weeks, then basically nothing - so the annual/monthly model is attractive!
I like the idea of keeping it open source, then those who don't want to pay can still use it - think I may follow your model :)
Hey I've actually come across this extension before! I think I ruled it out instantly due to the name, I believe I thought it was something to do with the streaming site Twitch rather than anything to do with Twitter.
If it helps any the way I was searching was for keyword (not neccesarily these) twitter account switch, twitter clients, etc and opened up a list of things that matched in tabs to then go on and short list. Ruling this out quickly as it seemed to be something to do with Twitch rather than Twitter.
As an aside I'm sorry to say I wouldn't pay anything for something that's just saving me 3 clicks every so often. Needs more functionality.