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by maxxxxx 2786 days ago
Running Facebook would become much cheaper if they could focus on being a social network instead of being an ad selling business. Right now they have to do both.
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I think you're right. When they bought Instagram, it had less than 20 employees because all they had to do was keep the service running.

I compare that with Twitter at the time had two thousand employees. It makes no sense to me.