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twitter: what's happening
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as much as i hate elon musk tho, it is a sort of reasonable strategy in case you’re trying to prevent incurring further hosting charges while you’re migrating 🤷♀️
not sure why he can’t just pay the hosting bill but whatever, that’s secondary i guess
No, letting your contract run out before you have properly migrated is not a reasonable strategy, it's mind-boggingly stupid and pathetic.
And this doesn't even go over the fact that the Google Cloud infrastructure was where the application that helped fight CSAM and harassment lived and there has been no contingency plan for moving it or getting it back up and running.
It is when you don't have a billion dollars. Any losses this incurs less than a billion dollars are actually an improvement on the bottom line...
Tough times when even the second richest guy in the world can’t afford to pay his bills.
You don't get to be that rich by paying bills.
real shit
ppl like to shit on twitter and the link (reasonably so), but it's a legitimate challenge to run it and do so profitably, if they're having troubles with their server costs, only thing i could actually fault them with is making a platform that takes like 1mb of bandwidth to serve like 1/3 kb worth of text (also allowing pictures and videos)
idk about you but i’ve no idea about how twitter is run, there’s plenty of reasons they would be unable or prefer not to do that 🤷♀️
There is literally no reason to do it like that other than incompetence. Platform migrations, especially for something as large as Twitter, are incredibly large undertakings that need a lot of skilled people. All those skilled people have long continued their careers at other companies.
You don't need to know how Twitter is run, that is simply IT and business management 102.
Incompetently, from the looks of it.
do you have access to their financial reports? otherwise how can one make such claims wrt to profitability (which is the issue at hand)
like, i kinda see it wrt to the whole blue checkmark fiasco, but the issue with profitability goes much deeper than that, both in terms of time (during which this problem existed) and design (how much is it embedded into twitter as an application)
There is literally no reason to do it like that other than incompetence. Platform migrations, especially for something as large as Twitter, are incredibly large undertakings that need a lot of skilled people. All those skilled people have long continued their careers at other companies.
You don't need to know how Twitter is run, that is simply IT and business management 102.
i don't really understand how you can be so confident while knowing nothing or very little about running such an insanely complicated platform as twitter
My brother in Christ, what?
while twitter as a concept is a pretty simple platform, scaling, load balancing, etc a service with hundreds of millions of users is pretty complicated
Lol, I'm regularly working with companies such as Twitter as a consultant :)
I can't believe people come to Lemmy of all places to defend Twitter and Musk. I've come here a month or so ago when the reddit news broke, but damn, it changed so much these past few days. I kind of already miss Lemmy as it was.
ok, then (depending on what kind of consulting you do though) you should know that operating and migrating such a services is a big challenge?
i'm not even sure what we're debating: twitter is incurring a lot of hosting charges, and they're trying to mitigate that...
So if you were moving to another home or apartment, is it a reasonable strategy to stop paying rent at your current home while you’re looking for a new place? Of course not. Same idea here.
if your current rent suddenly because very expensive, or you can’t afford the current rent bc you lost your job, then ye, it’s not a reasonable option, but the only option 🤷♀️
Ah yes, poor Elon is too poor to pay his bills. And Google must have suddenly increased the prices, it's not like they have contracts to adhere to regarding those kinda things.
can he actually pay twitter's bills? like, i really don't know whether he can just directly pay them, corporations aren't structured like a weekend market i'm assuming
and even if he could, i'm not sure if it would be sustainable (1bn usd hosting bill sounds very substantial)
Even if that was true, but it's a terrible strategy for retaining users and stock value.
What stock value? Elon bought it all out and took Twitter private. Elon is only screwing himself and his Saudi financiers.
i'm assuming that cessation of twitter's existence (due to lack of funds taken up by skyrocketing hosting bills) would be an even worse strategy for retaining users and maintaining desirable stock value
Do you have any proof that google's rates are going up or are you just taking Elon at face value? Because if you are taking Elon at face value, I have some crypto to sell you.
significant and/or unsustainable bills are not necessarily the result of google cloud's pricing changes (in fact i'm pretty sure that their pricing remained the same), it's most likely smth that changed on the twitter's end