[railsjedi]

Actually, App.net is quite useful already with it's 17k users (as was twitter when it had that many people).

It doesn't have to compete with Twitter, just provide a growing self sustaining user base of paying customers. Seems like an ok business strategy to me.

[rane]

Will it last though? Seems to me that it's a lot about the novelty that's making people excited about app.net.