No complaints? The sponsored tweets haven't annoyed you yet? The inability to use some twitter clients because Twitter refuses to give out more licenses hasn't annoyed you yet?

I use Twitter a lot, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't jump at the first chance of a real alternative.

I haven't found the sponsored tweets annoying at all. I mostly don't even notice them. I scan my feed and I only pay attention to the tweets which interest me. Everything else could be an ad as far as I'm concerned.

The number of sponsored ads don't seem high enough to make me feel like it's annoying.

As for Twitter clients. Eh, not sure I care so much. I just need a decent client which doesn't suck.

I think their recent decision sort of suck but as a user I don't know that I care too much.

This is exactly how the normal consumers look at these things. Outside of my tech life, no one cares at all.

They just joined Twitter, years after it was launched, because they wanted to see what interesting people & celebs were saying. Heck, the probably even heard about Twitter from an advert or some sort of marketing material, so adverts within Twitter won't bother them/me.

Yes, the (few) sponsored ads seem no different than any other tweet you wouldn't care about anyway. I for one am quite accustomed to sifting through things this way, the ads don't seem like much of an extra burden, at least to me.

How's it open? People keep saying that but there's nothing open about it except the creators keep saying it's open.

FYI: They don't show up in the Twitter's OSX app, and neither on their Windows Phone integration or their official WP app.

No ;)

Obviously you are not alone in liking Twitter, but seriously, no reason whatsoever?

I don't doubt what you say. I just find it astonishing that Twitter behavior and service has been such an absolute match for you.

Well I'm sure that plenty could be done to improve Twitter, but I'd ask whether app.net does any of those things. Last time I looked it is pretty much exactly the same.

Thats exactly how I feel as well. I would pay for a social network if it created a new/better experience for me, but App.net is a twitter clone. What can I do on app.net that I cant do on twitter? What part of the experience do they beat Twitter on?

App.net also hasnt been successful enough to attract the majority of people I follow on Twitter. So their value proposition for me looks like this: Im paying for something that looks, functions, and feels like Twitter without the people to follow to create that content.

> What can I do on app.net that I cant do on twitter? What part of the experience do they beat Twitter on?

Build or use your own app without worrying about hitting a token/user limit.

That's a limitation for people who build apps, not for the users. And it's not even that, it's a limitation for people who build apps and expect to scale them quite a bit, which, given the crowded space, doesn't really happen by accident.

This has pretty much no influence on users. It might slower the innovation a bit, but it's not like there's much innovation happening there to begin with..

But Im not planning on building my own app. So the value I get for paying 50/year is empowering app developers?

I also said use. The primary thing I dislike about Twitter is that they now limit apps to 100K tokens. This past weekend Falcon Pro, the Twitter client I use, reached the limit and is now unable to offer it to additional users.

This also impacts me as a user because the official Twitter apps have special privileges that third party apps do not. I believe this is why third party apps do not support push notifications.

So now you have your own app with which you can follow nobody.