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Re:Also Out at Twitter: Engineering Head Roetter (and More t... by acdha on Sunday January 24, 2016 @06:34PM (#10964582)
Twitter would be profitable in the tens of millions per quarter range except for stock-based compensation:

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AMDA-2F526X/840118979...

I'm inclined to say the best thing they could do would be scaling down expectations of bubble-level returns and focusing on value rather than screwing with the core service trying for unrealistic returns. The problem is that this would require compensating executives less and we live in a era obsessed with short-term returns.

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Re:Also Out at Twitter: Engineering Head Roetter (and More t... by steven2012 on Sunday January 24, 2016 @09:07PM (#10965189)
More like 100s of millions of dollars per quarter. They are actually a healthy company with good positive cash flow if not for stock based comp.
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