App.net Promises User & Developer Driven Social Network

In an era of sponsored tweets and sponsored Facebook pages, App.net promises to be a social network designed for users and not for advertisers. “We believe that advertising-supported social services are so consistently and inextricably at odds with the interests of users and developers that something must be done,” reads the site’s beta page.

Rather than a free model like Facebook or Twitter, App.net requires users to pay a minimum of $50 a year to join a “real-time social feed without the ads.” The

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