Taking Twitter Friend Adder In A New Direction
Posted by Wade | Posted in Personal/Thoughts/Rants, Pyrogenic Media Software | Posted on 16-08-2009
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For a while now ive been thinking on how to improve my Twitter Friend Adder application into something far more powerful. I mean sure, adding friends is a very important part of Twitter, but so is interacting with your users, sending out DM’s to your followers, using trends to your advantage, along with many other things. So, ive started working on an entirely new interface for it.
It will be more like a “Twitter Desktop” approach i guess. If you want, you can download this little “MDI Test” to show you basically how i am going to do it. Essentially it will just be a open plan window (Similar to Photoshop), where you can open any child window inside of it. And the child windows can be anything from alerts for @ messages to (ofcourse), friend adding. The download above actually doesn’t provide all too much info about how the product will work. Just how it will look.
Along with a new product, comes a new price, and it isnt $0.00. Im not sure on an initial price, but it will be reasonably cheap (Much cheaper then anything else out there), and could be as low as $1. Oh and there will be a monthly fee (Booo!), which you will all probably hate. But its actually for your own good, a monthly fee ensures that im motivated to keep providing updates, lest my users get pissed off and leave.Not only that but i can guarantee that not all of you will be marketing on twitter forever. Some people just want to take a stab at it, and so paying a smaller, almost trial fee, will be beneficial.
So, although good news about me developing again, bad news about selling it. But like i say, it will be chump change. And aslong as you know what your doing with twitter, you wont have a difficult time making that money back.


People won’t buy they will just crack it.
Offer 30 days free and then start the monthly fee or something.
You would prob make more money off an ad supported version. Good luck though.
While i know this is a problem. There is some very simple steps to not allow cracks, one of which being very good encryption
. I dont doubt people will try to crack it, but it will be very very hard to. Plus one cracked version will not equal the next version a month down the road. So aslong as im always staying one step ahead, i shouldnt have a problem.
Yeah…
You need to guard your “coding”, so people won’t crack it. People definitely will pay for the service if it offers “quality” stuff.
Talking about good piece of web applications, I think w3. member**speed.com is a good example, it’s a Web-based server application that (at least) couldn’t be cracked so far.
All Da’ Best
Selling is not the bad part dude, its about keeping it up and running. And also douche bags dun abuse it till twitter has to make some major changes. Charge higher………….