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		kaba0 on Nov 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SR... More profitable than what? It was and is losing money, plus now it also has some serious debt on top. With staff that actually know their shit (and a sane CEO), it may be possible to turn it profitable, but I don’t think it will happen as things currently stand.

npn on Nov 22, 2022 [–]

7000 people x $300k = $2.1B And that's salary alone. The operation cost to serve all those people is a lot more.

Twitter revenue last year was around $5B.

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