on October 3, 2009 by Justin in Entrepreneurship, Comments (19)
Dear Twitter. I Want To Share My Revenue With You.
Dear Twitter,
I’m building http://tweetminer.net and – although I’ll always have a free plan – it won’t be very long before I introduce premium subscription plans at around $5 – $10 per month.
I may get 1 paying subscriber – I may get 10,000 paying subscribers – who knows?
What I do know is, no matter how much (or how little) money TweetMiner makes, I can’t help but feel it isn’t very fair I can build a revenue generating business on your dime.
I know, I know, that TweetMiner is an amaaaaazing product, and that I’m a hiiiighly talented developer pushing the bounds of what’s possible with JavaScript and PHP, yada, yada…
…but even so – TweetMiner couldn’t even EXIST without YOU – Twitter. Without the HUGE amounts of value that your infrastructure, your marketing and your capital expenditure brings to the table.
So, here’s what I was thinking…
I wish you had some kind of (free to join) commercial partner program that would make it really easy for me to build a Twitter product and share revenue with you.
You could offer me huge incentives to get involved with you on that basis.
For example, what a pain that I have to get involved in building a subscription payment system – it would be so much easier if YOU did all that heavy lifting and gave me an instant uber-simple API and took care of payment processing.
That would be cool because you could take care of all the annoying financial subscription business logic (and take your 10%) annnnnd you would have lots of $$$ sloshing around in your interest bearing accounts until I withdrew my mullah.
Another cool thing you could do would be to list me as a verified commercial partner on your site and give me the Twitter seal of approval – which would make my customers feel a lot more secure (if you thought my app wasn’t a bucket of crap, that is).
As a commercial partner you could offer my app (and users of my app) other great benefits too – like – higher API limits – and a better quality API connection & uptime.
Annnnyyywwwwaaayy. Just thought I’d share.
Yours Sincerely,
JV
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Binny V A
October 3, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
This is a cool concept. I hope twitter gives a nod to this idea.
Max Niederhofer
October 3, 2009 @ 3:29 pm
Re the payment stuff: check out spreedly.com.
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Twwety
October 4, 2009 @ 12:43 am
That is an awesome idea. Hope Twitter will implement it
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October 4, 2009 @ 2:12 am
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HZ
October 4, 2009 @ 8:36 am
i don’t think this works. twitter can easily build this themselves if they want, why to share $$$ with you? :)
the nature of twitter is free.
Mike Stenger
October 4, 2009 @ 9:28 am
You know Justin, this is one of those ideas that may just gain some traction. I think it’s a very good concept and both parties would benefit.
Wish you the best of luck with it dude!
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Mark
October 4, 2009 @ 2:40 pm
where’s the retweet button? ;)
Philip McMahon
October 4, 2009 @ 4:38 pm
Awesome idea! Always good to share with those that provided the seed that you’ve turned into some damn awesome crop! Very noble of you! I think it’s such a nice idea that I’m going to check out tweetminer myself :)
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Lisa Oberndorfer
October 5, 2009 @ 3:36 am
You made my day :) The commercial partner program is a good idea.
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Warren Whitlock
October 31, 2009 @ 2:44 am
Interesting idea… thousands of developers playing with an API.. let them put in the grunt work and take a piece of every dollar they bring in. I’m sure some would be pay 50% or more to have someone else handle the business side of things while taking the upfront risk.
Then they could add a clause as an option to buy your company. The payments would lock down a relationship where the corporation could buy out any that pop up and do a good job.
Paul Saunders
November 11, 2009 @ 3:41 pm
I would like to resell your premium accounts as we have many musicians, bands and artists that could use the technology and they are all looking for simple and elegant ways to promote their music.
Let me know the details