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Re:Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round by malchow on Friday May 27, 2016 @10:03AM (#11786079)
As a few dozen people managing a webapp on AWS from home while eating udon noodles, it'd be a cash cow.
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Re:Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round by argonaut on Friday May 27, 2016 @07:05PM (#11789703)
I know people who have worked at Twitter. Twitter's systems cannot be run, even in maintenance mode, by only a few people on AWS. Not only would Twitter crash / crawl to a halt on AWS, but that's not even enough people.
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Re:Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round by the_watcher on Friday May 27, 2016 @01:37PM (#11787578)
Exactly. Twitter earned nearly $600M last quarter. Claiming that it has not successfully monetized is simply false.
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