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I've had the displeasure of working with their "new" APIs - the documentation is all over the place, their playground and examples are non-functional, the dashb

by meibo 3y ago

I've had the displeasure of working with their "new" APIs - the documentation is all over the place, their playground and examples are non-functional, the dashboard looks and works like someone started it as a "your first react project" and didn't bother finishing, and the prices are astronomical. Exactly what you would expect from an underfunded and understaffed team at a social media site that doesn't want to be a social media site anymore, I would be surprised if anyone was actually working on this beyond what they need internally. The developer sign-up has been broken for weeks by the way, it will show you a 500 error in the console without any feedback and you have to spam it to let you in, like most other things in their console.

PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
Maybe it should just die then. Seriously. It wasn't profitable when Elon took over. Elon made it profitable. If doing that makes it non-functional then perhaps that's because there's no actual business here.
- viraptor 3y ago
  It was profitable in 2018/2019. It had a big loss in 2020 and almost recovered in 2021. All in all, they weren't doing terribly bad at the time (but not well either). Elon has not made it profitable as far as I know. In 2022 90% of revenue was from ads which got gutted after Elon. 3 months ago, there were still under https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-twitters-cash-flow-still-negative-ad-revenue-drops-2023-07-15/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-twitters-c... and I haven't seen anything really positive since. And that's ignoring ongoing lawsuits. It still wasn't profitable in September and they don't think it will be until next year https://fortune.com/2023/09/28/linda-yaccarino-x-twitter-ceo-profit-code-conference/ https://fortune.com/2023/09/28/linda-yaccarino-x-twitter-ceo...
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- Vilian 3y ago
  no he didn't, stop believing in his lies
  - rsynnott 3y ago
    Musk has not as far as I know claimed that Twitter is profitable, though he has rather unconvincingly claimed that it _will_ be profitable. So this is actually a case of transElonian levels of nonsense.
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by meibo 3y ago

PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago

Maybe it should just die then. Seriously. It wasn't profitable when Elon took over. Elon made it profitable. If doing that makes it non-functional then perhaps that's because there's no actual business here.

viraptor 3y ago
It was profitable in 2018/2019. It had a big loss in 2020 and almost recovered in 2021. All in all, they weren't doing terribly bad at the time (but not well either). Elon has not made it profitable as far as I know. In 2022 90% of revenue was from ads which got gutted after Elon. 3 months ago, there were still under https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-twitters-cash-flow-still-negative-ad-revenue-drops-2023-07-15/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-twitters-c... and I haven't seen anything really positive since. And that's ignoring ongoing lawsuits. It still wasn't profitable in September and they don't think it will be until next year https://fortune.com/2023/09/28/linda-yaccarino-x-twitter-ceo-profit-code-conference/ https://fortune.com/2023/09/28/linda-yaccarino-x-twitter-ceo...
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Vilian 3y ago
no he didn't, stop believing in his lies
- rsynnott 3y ago
  Musk has not as far as I know claimed that Twitter is profitable, though he has rather unconvincingly claimed that it _will_ be profitable. So this is actually a case of transElonian levels of nonsense.
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