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Servers are not that expensive, especially not when people are going to Twitter because they are outraged and seeing all the ads, and others are paying $8 per m

Servers are not that expensive, especially not when people are going to Twitter because they are outraged and seeing all the ads, and others are paying $8 per month. Whether or not that works out is not something I can predict, but having more user engagement than ever before is not a bad thing for a platform that makes literally every penny from exploiting user engagement in some way.

woodruffw 4y ago
Expensive enough to try and shirk the bills, it seems[1]. I would say that 95% of my professional circle was on Twitter 3 months ago. Today, it feels like less than 50%. Of that same circle, I only know one who paid $8 for Twitter Blue, and he canceled this month. Outrage-driven engagement is definitely happening. But it needs to happen on Twitter, and in a way that doesn't threaten Twitter's ad sales, for it to be of any value to Twitter. [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/technology/elon-musk-twitter-cost-cutting.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/technology/elon-musk-twit...
- danaris 4y ago
  That article seems to suggest that Musk has considered cutting just about everything except servers (including paying the lease on the buildings). But nowhere does it mention cutting servers.
  - woodruffw 4y ago
    > Mr. Davis, the president of the Boring Company, has also directed Twitter employees to renegotiate the deals that the company has with firms such as Amazon and Oracle, which provide computing and tech services, the people said. The employees were told to suggest to those companies that Mr. Musk’s firms would not work with them in the future if they refused to renegotiate, the people said. Twitter has their own datacenters, so this is likely to be peripheral. But we do know they've fired the majority of the staff actually operating those datacenters.

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Servers are not that expensive, especially not when people are going to Twitter because they are outraged and seeing all the ads, and others are paying $8 per m

by twblalock 4y ago

woodruffw 4y ago
Expensive enough to try and shirk the bills, it seems[1]. I would say that 95% of my professional circle was on Twitter 3 months ago. Today, it feels like less than 50%. Of that same circle, I only know one who paid $8 for Twitter Blue, and he canceled this month. Outrage-driven engagement is definitely happening. But it needs to happen on Twitter, and in a way that doesn't threaten Twitter's ad sales, for it to be of any value to Twitter. [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/technology/elon-musk-twitter-cost-cutting.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/technology/elon-musk-twit...
- danaris 4y ago
  That article seems to suggest that Musk has considered cutting just about everything except servers (including paying the lease on the buildings). But nowhere does it mention cutting servers.
  - woodruffw 4y ago
    > Mr. Davis, the president of the Boring Company, has also directed Twitter employees to renegotiate the deals that the company has with firms such as Amazon and Oracle, which provide computing and tech services, the people said. The employees were told to suggest to those companies that Mr. Musk’s firms would not work with them in the future if they refused to renegotiate, the people said. Twitter has their own datacenters, so this is likely to be peripheral. But we do know they've fired the majority of the staff actually operating those datacenters.