Re:Twitter API appears to be down, breaking Tweetbot and thi...
by rvnx on Friday January 13, 2023 @08:12AM
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SpaceX is a great company, worth investing into, because of their ISP + phone telco business (lot of people are ready to pay a high price for that) and a very difficult space technology to reproduce, nobody is going to compete soon.
Twitter is different, it's more like MySpace.
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Re:Twitter API appears to be down, breaking Tweetbot and thi...
by camjohnson26 on Friday January 13, 2023 @09:26AM
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StarLink isn’t profitable, so that’s the kiss of death in a down market. Doesn’t matter how good the product is or how much people will pay if the replacement satellites to keep it running cost more.
Re:Twitter API appears to be down, breaking Tweetbot and thi...
by marcosdumay on Friday January 13, 2023 @11:55AM
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StarLink is the right out of the book case for VC investment. One should expect several years before it gets profitable, and with very large initial investment. It's also very difficult to replicate, so whatever market there is there is a high likelihood for it to capture.
That means that it should be judged like a startup. Did it demonstrate a market? If so, it's valuable, if not, it's not. Current cash flow isn't very relevant.