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Re:Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters E... by inthewoods on Saturday October 10, 2015 @08:59AM (#10365361)
WhatsApp also appears, at the moment, to have a much simpler business model - you buy it. No advertising technology, no audience/data teams and, probably most significantly, no sales team to go out and get people to use the platform. And no big agency handholding people, no data scientists, no customer success account managers. I'd be curious to see what the breakdown is between tech and sales at Twitter.
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Re:Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters E... by reubenmorais on Saturday October 10, 2015 @03:12PM (#10366599)
That business model is almost certainly out the window after the Facebook acquisition. They renewed everyone's license automatically, and are probably going to remove it entirely.
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Re:Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters E... by inthewoods on Saturday October 10, 2015 @11:33PM (#10367929)
Agreed - but this is about the number of employees based on their original business model, not what the future holds.
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Re:Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters E... by eecks on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @02:10PM (#10382310)
They renewed licenses before the acquisition
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