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Right, but Twitter wasn't a healthy business (in the sense of being profitable most years) in the first place so it's not beyond the realm of possibility they took reliability further than made sense. Anyway they now have a huge debt load that changes the calculus regardless.


> Right, but Twitter wasn't a healthy business

I don't know why this nonsense keeps being spread.

a) Steadily increasing revenue, DAUs etc and benefited immensely from COVID.

b) Were on track to being sustainably profitable.

c) Starting to get traction in stealing ad spend from Facebook who had their own issues after Apple's effects on attribution reporting.

The company was in a much better shape than many other similar SV companies around.




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