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What a shortsighted view! Do you think Twitter operates out of the goodness of their hearts and will continue to let you keep up on Ai and new space in the fac

by phyrex 3y ago

What a shortsighted view! Do you think Twitter operates out of the goodness of their hearts and will continue to let you keep up on Ai and new space in the face of losing money? Do you think what’s there will just do to help working without active maintenance? Do you think the servers that make all this possible are running for free?

paulsutter 3y ago
Their revenue is massively larger than the cost to run their servers (I used to run 3000 physical servers with a small team, it doesn't cost much) > advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million
- saryant 3y ago
  You’re off by a couple orders of magnitude on what it takes to run Twitter.
- dragontamer 3y ago
  Ad revenue is mostly tied to sales people talking with big companies, addressing their issues. For example: Southwest airlines has a huge number of advertisements across the internet. But Southwest doesn't want these advertisements to appear next to airport disasters. This kind of "custom request" is the bulk of $Millions+ revenues. You need to constantly cater to these company's seemingly arbitrary requests as they try to protect their brand. Twitter fired the team that did this. And when they did, the big companies that care about their image left.
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- kalleboo 3y ago
  > Their revenue is massively larger than the cost to run their servers That never seems to matter when big services shut down. It's more about VC-level opportunity cost ("will this give me unicorn-level returns?")
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- blitzar 3y ago
  Servers may be cheap to run, but the interest bill on ~20bn of loans is expensive.
softbt 3y ago
Lol no twitter def doesn’t run out of goodness but if Elon wants to keep the view count high, he’s going to continue to allow any sort of engagement

by phyrex 3y ago

paulsutter 3y ago

Their revenue is massively larger than the cost to run their servers (I used to run 3000 physical servers with a small team, it doesn't cost much) > advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million

saryant 3y ago
You’re off by a couple orders of magnitude on what it takes to run Twitter.
dragontamer 3y ago
Ad revenue is mostly tied to sales people talking with big companies, addressing their issues. For example: Southwest airlines has a huge number of advertisements across the internet. But Southwest doesn't want these advertisements to appear next to airport disasters. This kind of "custom request" is the bulk of $Millions+ revenues. You need to constantly cater to these company's seemingly arbitrary requests as they try to protect their brand. Twitter fired the team that did this. And when they did, the big companies that care about their image left.
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kalleboo 3y ago
> Their revenue is massively larger than the cost to run their servers That never seems to matter when big services shut down. It's more about VC-level opportunity cost ("will this give me unicorn-level returns?")
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blitzar 3y ago
Servers may be cheap to run, but the interest bill on ~20bn of loans is expensive.

softbt 3y ago

Lol no twitter def doesn’t run out of goodness but if Elon wants to keep the view count high, he’s going to continue to allow any sort of engagement