This chat room charges you a penny for every character you type

guest · Mar 3, 2019

One cent per letter
This chat room charges you a penny for every character you type
A chat room social experiment
March 3, 2019
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/3/1...oom-marc-kohlbrugge-charge-penny-per-characte

Entrepreneur Marc Köhlbrugge has launched Expensive Chat, a web-based chat service where every character typed costs a penny. As spotted by Motherboard, Köhlbrugge announced the site in a tweet, calling it “a social experiment to see what happens to a chatroom when it’s not a free-for-all, but every message cost you cold, hard cash.” And where does all that cash go? Directly to Köhlbrugge.

Köhlbrugge frames the site as a social experiment, and it could be looked at through that lens (one Twitter response dryly notes, “The rich and powerful get to buy speech as always”). Public chat rooms can quickly turn into overwhelming and chaotic spaces, so it’s interesting to see how people’s decisions change when every letter is tallied to a bill.

And for anyone who doubts that people would pay per character to send messages on some random website, Köhlbrugge has pocketed about $150 in the few days Expensive Chat has been live.
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Stefan Froberg · Mar 3, 2019

Social experiment my *** ...
Let's say people are willing to spend, $1.4 per day (old twitter char limit)
And let's say this robbe...I mean experiment ever reaches 500 million messages per day (current amount of tweets per day)....
That's just insane amount of money .....

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