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Yeah, I think they just don't want or can't pay for the bandwidth. Or, perhaps they are trying to make Twitter feel bad and buy them. Either way it's a bad si
by downandout 12y ago
Yeah, I think they just don't want or can't pay for the bandwidth. Or, perhaps they are trying to make Twitter feel bad and buy them. Either way it's a bad situation, but isn't necessarily evil on their part to not want to put anything more into a dying venture.
- downandout 12y agoFor those downvoting this - why don't you try paying for 800M images to be leached from the server of a failed company of yours with no hope of recouping a single dollar.
- jamesbrownuhh 12y agoAny such cost would be several orders of magnitude smaller than the millions of dollars of advertising revenue those images have been pulling in for twitpic over the years. Let's not pretend that Noah is down to his last packet of ramen noodles, here. Twitpic is a long way from being a "failed company" by any reasonable definition of the term.
- Mithaldu 12y agoYou're getting downvoted because you somehow missed that multiple people have offered to carry the cost of export from S3.
- downandout 12y agoRandom people from the Internet offering to pay a bill likely to be in the low five figures. That sounds like it would work out well. "I sent him a copy of the bill and he's not responding. I don't understand.....he said he would pay. He even gave me his Twitter handle!"
- jamesbrownuhh 12y agoThose "random people from the Internet" you are dismissing include a number of well-respected site owners, operators, and entrepreneurs.