App.net – Are we getting an ad-free Twitter?

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“What @daltonc (Dalton Caldwell) is doing is pretty forward. If this succeeds it will be one for the history books, for sure". Is a statement made by Kristy Tillman, Designer at Ideo. This is just one of the feeds talking about a promising project called App.net. App.net is an alternative social network that users will have to pay to use. It is imagined to be a social service where users and developers are in the spotlight instead of advertisers. Its functions are much like Twitter, you are able to follow other users and see their updates.

The company itself states that they created this project to be like Twitter “before it turned into a media company.“ The goal is to raise $500,000 by Monday, August 13th at 11.59pm PDT.  The money is being collected from donations, and every one can participate in it. If you donate $50 you will be able to access the service for one year,get your current Twitter username befor e the project deadline passes or request preferred username if it's available. For a $100 you get everything that comes with a $50 donation plus a developer tool chain (API key generation, documentation, API analytics dashboard, developer feedback and support community), and for a donation of $1000 you get a personal meeting with Dalton (and everything included from a smaller donations).

So far many tech industry “celebrities“ have supported App.net and with it is closer to achieving the planned goal. At the time of this writing they have received $417750 of the needed $500,000 so it is very likely that they real their goal (and perhaps more). If you want to support this service you can do that on https://join.app.net/.

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