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As a few dozen people managing a webapp on AWS from home while eating udon noodles, it'd be a cash cow.
by malchow 10y ago
As a few dozen people managing a webapp on AWS from home while eating udon noodles, it'd be a cash cow.
- the_watcher 10y agoExactly. Twitter earned nearly $600M last quarter. Claiming that it has not successfully monetized is simply false.
- argonaut 10y agoI know people who have worked at Twitter. Twitter's systems cannot be run, even in maintenance mode, by only a few people on AWS. Not only would Twitter crash / crawl to a halt on AWS, but that's not even enough people.