<p><pre><code> You never have to pay anything, and you can keep using
Ello forever, for free. By choosing to buy a feature now
and then for a very small amount of money you support
our work and help us make Ello better and better.
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This is way too generous and altruistic to be practical. They obviously mean well, but this is effectively a donation-based model and it very rarely works in practice.<p>What I think they should do is to offer personal accounts for free and charge for enterprise presence. I know a handful of people who use Facebook and Twitter in read-only mode and who follow just the companies. They effectively use social networks as a news feed of product updates, coupons, deals, discounts, etc. Moreover, they explicitly seek out the companies and follow them. If you think about it, it's an insane arrangement - you have people opting in to hear to what you have to say. This is valuable, this is something worth paying for <i>and</i> it keeps the network free for the individuals.