Pinterest commits to spending $3B with AWS through to 2029

Re:Pinterest commits to spending $3B with AWS through to 2029 by detaro on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @08:58AM (#28288235)

What counts as a "user" in this case?

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Re:Pinterest commits to spending $3B with AWS through to 2029 by nacs on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @09:24AM (#28288517)

Anyone who has put a fake email into their forced-registration popup to be able to view any of their content I'd imagine.

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Re:Pinterest commits to spending $3B with AWS through to 2029 by Schiendelman on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @10:06AM (#28289015)

Companies don’t usually publish their definitions, but they also have to make an effort to exclude fake users or risk being held accountable by their investors.

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Re:Pinterest commits to spending $3B with AWS through to 2029 by detaro on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:35AM (#28290241)

Sure, but if I accidentally click on one of their links in google image search I'm "using" the website and not "fake", but $0.80 would be quite a bad deal ;) Whereas its registered users actively doing something on the site, not as terrible.

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Re:Pinterest commits to spending $3B with AWS through to 2029 by Schiendelman on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @03:48PM (#28306065)

Ah, I see what you mean. I've never seen a major company claim top of funnel were "users". You'd have to have an account.

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