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Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by codeulike on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:19AM (#35372234)
Revenue not the same thing as profit

Twitter has only made a profit in 2 out of the last 11 years

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=twitter+profits+per+yea...

Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by brotoss on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:12PM (#35375015)
Now do Amazon
Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by Drakim on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:40PM (#35376433)
As far as I understand Amazon makes a deliberate choice to reinvest their profit into research, marketing, etc, with the promise that it will grow more in the future.

Musk has been very upfront that Twitter is bleeding money (hence why he is firing so many people), it's not simply that a healthy profit margin is being reinvested.

Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by kulahan on Thursday March 30, 2023 @07:59PM (#35380545)
Amazon has been profitable all years except 1 since its first profitable year, if I'm remembering correctly.
Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by dragontamer on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:01PM (#35376697)
The Twitter Buyout is structured as a $13 Billion loan.

That means that Elon Musk's Twitter Buyout costs $1.3 Billion/year _ON TOP_ of all the other costs of Twitter.

If Twitter was "barely profitable" in 2021, they're now $Billion+ short / year. That has nothing to do with "old Twitter" decisions, and 100% to do with how Elon Musk structured the buyout.

Presumably, you're supposed to assume that Musk knows what he's doing and that he has a plan to make $1.3 Billion in profits (to break even on the loan) and then go beyond (to make profit on his $44 Billion investment). But... I'm honestly not seeing it.

Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by nemothekid on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:54PM (#35377348)
Your graph doesn't really counter the parent's point. The profit line was trending upwards 2020 was their most profitable year. It certainly looks like the business was becoming sustainable.
Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by codeulike on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:42PM (#35377858)
It certainly looks like the business was becoming sustainable

The downturn in early 2022 hit them badly. They were losing money again when Elon bought them (one of the reasons he tried to pull out of the deal)

Admittedly the way he structured his buy out made it worse by adding more debt.