"Take your ball and go home" isn't always stupid. Perhaps more stupid is to entrust a random website to store all of your pictures indefinitely, especially when

"Take your ball and go home" isn't always stupid. Perhaps more stupid is to entrust a random website to store all of your pictures indefinitely, especially when that website has no clear revenue model. Don't put yourself in a situation where data will be lost by someone taking his ball back. We very well could be having the same situation in a few years when Twitter is in the process of turning off the servers. If you want to keep your data, make backups. Don't trust cloud providers to be there. If you're the Internet Archive, make backups/dumps/archives before people start turning the servers off.