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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Even if that was true, but it's a terrible strategy for retaining users and stock value.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

What stock value? Elon bought it all out and took Twitter private. Elon is only screwing himself and his Saudi financiers.

[–] k_o_t@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] k_o_t@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

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