Please advise on my Twitter clone idea
jacquesm: On the one hand I'm tempted to tell you to forget about it, it's a bad idea for many reasons.On the other hand it would help to have an object lesson in how not to do something like this, so if you do go ahead with it please keep a careful diary and do it online so that in the future if someone wants to do something like this we can point them to the guy that proved us all wrong or use it as a warning on how not to start a business.I know this sounds harsh, but if you simply run the numbers you have to admit that with the playing field so diluted that your chances of making yourself stand out above the rest of the players are very slim indeed.Oh, and a 1 time registration fee of $2 will bring you on the order of $1.25 or so after all transaction fees have been taken off. There is a reason why even trial subscriptions are $3.95, after all the costs and chargebacks and credits have been taken care of that about breaks even.