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> and the company is addressing it by charging (a lot) for formerly-free features as a way to reduce load Twitter was losing a ton of money, the free features
by brigadier132 4y ago
> and the company is addressing it by charging (a lot) for formerly-free features as a way to reduce load
Twitter was losing a ton of money, the free features had to go regardless.
- ryanjshaw 4y agoI do think it's a bit silly I can't use the free API to read my own tweets, though.
- gdulli 4y agoTwitter was profitable as recently as 2019. A simple round of layoffs to fix the pandemic overhiring could have brought them back to that, or close enough that they wouldn't have had to blow up the service in bigger ways. Although this is an avenue that would have been open to the prior leadership. The extra debt and baggage introduced by Musk may have taken a solution that simple away.
- brookst 4y ago"Free features" like letting public agencies post public service info? Rule 1 of being a content aggregator: never, ever, ever, under any circumstances, for any reason, should you charge people for giving you content that makes your platform more valuable.