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Re:Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023 by smoldesu on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:55PM (#34460543)
Ad revenue can be down 40% if your overall paid workforce was reduced by ~85%. It wasn't working out for Twitter either way, if they wanted to be profitable then something had to change.

As an impartial non-Twitter user, I think it's safe to say that neither version of Twitter was healthy for it's platform or users.

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Re:Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023 by wpietri on Friday January 20, 2023 @05:13PM (#34460789)
Twitter has been profitable in the recent past and could be again. Drama was not necessary.

I think your claim on profitability is flat out wrong. If you think that's the case, what are the exact numbers you are imagining that would make Twitter profitable?

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Re:Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023 by ceejayoz on Friday January 20, 2023 @06:25PM (#34461613)
Twitter was profitable in 2018 and 2019. Down in 2020, and 2021 is hard to fairly assess.
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