App.net's crowdfunders: Taken for a ride?

Last week App.net reached the milestone of 10,000 users who signed up for a new -- mostly yet to be written -- social network that looks like an early reimplementation of Twitter. Signing up people to claim user names on an vaporware alpha Web service may not seem surprising or novel, but this time there's a difference: Everyone who signed up for App.net paid $50 for the privilege.

Source: http://akamai.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/appnets-crowdfunders-taken-ride-200755?source=rss_networking

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