November 17th, 2017 
Marty Figgs 
App.net caused quite a splash when it launched in 2012, with its ad-free, subscription-genereated revenue model causing waves in the industry, at a time when many were worried about Twitter’s increasing relience on advertising to make money. However, the founders announced today that the service will be shutting down on 14 March, with user signups suspended immediately.
The idea behind App.net was have users and developers pay to use the service, instead of adverts, meaning the service was completely ad-free.
App.net is shutting down on March 14, source code will be put on GitHub was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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