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But there are now big debt payments that didn't exist before, from the massively leveraged buyout.



Oh, sure, I’d be amazed if it’s profitable today. But I understood the person I was replying to to mean that they were throttling to control infra cost, which makes no sense, as revenue from people using twitter (ads) must surely more than pay for the infra; effectively shutting down twitter won’t make the debt costs go away and would clearly be a net financial negative.


> But I understood the person I was replying to to mean that they were throttling to control infra cost

Or hard pushing for Twitter Blue subscriptions, which have 10x the rate limit.




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