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by andrewguy9 1172 days ago
The api hurts the Twitter. My company extracted lots of value from it, which Twitter didn’t monetize at all. But they had huge infrastructure and engineering effort to support the api. They never should have built it.
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saryant 1172 days ago
Twitter made hundreds of millions a year selling API access.
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moneywoes 1172 days ago
Curious how did they extract value?
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