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Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by bhaak on Thursday March 30, 2023 @06:56AM (#35370753)
This would be a laudable direction to take the company towards ...

... if he didn't start by putting $12.5 billions of debt on the balance sheet after the buyout.

Which means that Twitter has to pay $1 billion of interest each year which it didn't have to do before that hostile takeover.

How many people would need to buy Twitter Blue to offset the interest alone? 125 million users which is about a third of its whole active user base.

Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by supermatt on Thursday March 30, 2023 @07:22AM (#35370973)
1bn / $8/m (excluding costs, etc) / 12 months = ~ 10m
Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by ed_elliott_asc on Thursday March 30, 2023 @07:04AM (#35370826)
Just to pay off the interest? Ouch ouch ouch