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Re:Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters E... by mrweasel on Saturday October 10, 2015 @04:53AM (#10364930)
>Twitter reported half a billion in revenue last quarter

And yet managed to lose 136 million dollars. While revenue is interesting, it just doesn't matter if you can't turn a profit.

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Re:Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters E... by draugadrotten on Saturday October 10, 2015 @05:22AM (#10364985)
How is it even possible for a company like twitter to spend a billion dollar and change in one quarter? That's enough to run a small country complete with golden bathroom for the dictator.

Time to go read about their OPEX I suppose. Anyone got a link to a good write-up?

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Re:Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters E... by ryanSrich on Saturday October 10, 2015 @11:07AM (#10365697)
Twitter is notorious for being ridiculously frivolous[1]. They also pay their employees very very high wages[2], which isn't a bad thing, but I assume that doesn't scale well.

1. http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/06/technology/social/twitter-ca...

2. http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Twitter-Staff-Software-Engin...

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Re:Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters E... by TheBlueDot on Saturday October 10, 2015 @09:30AM (#10365441)
Half a billion but...

People are expensive, office space in their 30+ offices is expensive, hundreds of thousands of servers are expensive...

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Re:Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters E... by foobarian on Saturday October 10, 2015 @09:48AM (#10365501)
How in the world do they have hundreds of thousands of servers!
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