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This past October, Newsday, the Long Island daily newspaper, was purchased for $650 million, and its website, newsday.com, was put behind a pay wall. For just $5 a week, users could gain access to the site, but after three months on the market, how many had subscribed? Thirty-five people.

close to 49% of respondents used free micro-blogging platforms such as Twitter, that doesn't mean any ever plan to spend money on the services. When asked if they'd ever pay for Twitter, 100% said no.

Rupert Murdoch's London Times had gained just 15,000 paid subscribers after putting up its new pay wall. What's more, the wall cut Web traffic by two-thirds, with some estimating it could plummet as much as 90%.