If it actually takes you a single machine to run this, you don't really need an advertising network to fund it. Out of 5M users (let alone the theoretical 300M)

If it actually takes you a single machine to run this, you don't really need an advertising network to fund it. Out of 5M users (let alone the theoretical 300M) there will be enough people who'd be happy to pay for verification or an exclusive badge on their profile. > How are your 1,000 engineers going to push their code to production on one machine? That might actually be the reason why Twitter barely keeps afloat. 1k engineers for a product that's already built and hasn't fundamentally changed nor evolved in years makes me wonder what business value those engineers actually provide.