Yonkly: Not a Twitter Killer

When you see an article with the title “Yonkly: The Next Twitter Killer”, you’ve got little choice but to check it out.

Well, let me tell you Yonkly is no Twitter killer. Aside from a few administrative bells and whistles such as being able to have a custom domain and installing ads, Yonkly has little that make it a viable alternative to Twitter.

What Yonkly has in spade is chutzpah and the belief it can create a subscription-based business model. The problem is it’s difficult to understand what you’re paying to use other than storage space, and the ability to have full control of ads and removing Yonkly’s logo.

Here’s Yonkly’ subscription model:

Yonkly
Twitter could glean a few ideas from Yonkly but it has nothing to worry about.

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