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It does. Alphabet would care a great deal more if Twitter lives or dies. Wall St doesn't care in the slightest.

• mschuster91 11y ago
  On the other side, Google doesn't always follow this rule and I wouldn't trust them much more to look after Twitter than Wall St. Google has killed off (or left to rot, and then kill off) projects with huge user counts/business outlooks in the past... remember Google Reader and Google Code? Both could have kicked Feedly's and Github's/SF's asses multiple times over with a bit of investment, and Google basically let them rot until the backend of Google's infrastructure changed too much to justify the needed adaptions on the projects.
  • melted 11y ago
    User counts were so pitifully small in those projects that they were destaffed for years before they were shut down.
    • mschuster91 11y ago
      Reader had iirc at least a million users, that's only small when you compare it with FB/Instagram/Twitter/Youtube/Snapchat. Most startups would kill for a million highly engaged users.
      • melted 11y ago
        I believe G+ had 300M+ users at the time, and G+ was still considered a failure. 1M is a rounding error by Google standards. They can get 1M users by releasing _anything_ that does _anything_ at this point.