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Re:Twitter to start layoffs -internal email by BeefWellington on Friday November 04, 2022 @01:59AM (#33462735)
Failing to learn the lessons of Betamax continue to haunt decisionmakers, essentially.

The takeaway should likely be: Twitter will be fine if people can still post their porn there.

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Re:Twitter to start layoffs -internal email by RC_ITR on Friday November 04, 2022 @02:43PM (#33471721)
Wasn't the downfall of Betamax that the tapes were limited to 1 hour (which Sony thought was fine since that was the unit of commercial videotapes) and most people wanted to record sporting events that took longer than an hour?
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