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My bad, I was working from memory. I probably did an s/Microsoft/Amazon/ in my head.
Amazon disclosed in its quarterly earnings announcement that AWS revenue totaled $18.44 billion in the quarter [snip]. That works out to about 16% of Amazon’s total revenue. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/28/aws-earnings-q1-2022.html
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I would generally agree, _except_ with the fact then this just defeats the entire point of Twitter - it might as well become the next Medium then. Which, let's be realistic, can be a strategy too - become a content publisher rather than an aggregator of links and short opinions. But then again, that's not why I am personally on Twitter. YMMV.
again, people already accomplish exactly this thing by posting screenshots of text. but that's less accessible, less searchable, and an overall poorer experience than letting people post actual text instead of screenshotting it first. and if you don't personally use twitter, i'm not sure how qualified you are to judge whether or not something defeats the purpose of twitter.
I stand by the statement that Twitter moving into publishing long-form content puts it on the same pedestal with Medium and defeats the purpose of the platform. Which is OK - strategy evolves, and someone did the math that this is going to be more beneficial.
My other comments reflect my stance on their decision, but I am neither a product manager at Twitter, nor do I have any knowledge of the "whys" so take this with a boulder of salt.
Keeping it in app should be a step forward, but a clickable "read more" that expand *within the timeline* (same way it works for threads within the timeline, though unfortunately not within list) is the only thing that will kill threads.
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> I always hated the long multi-tweet essays I'm very new to twitter but I love them because feedback can be given on a (near) per sentence basis.
That's the problem; it's like a book where the footnotes come to outweigh the actual text.
Or do you mean you hate how comments and retweets are more important than the thread itself? In that case that, to me, is just an internet thing. I got one enjoy comments about the material more than the material it self.
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I love tweet threads. It's a great way to write, forces concision, and as a reader, a quick way to get the gist of a complicated subject. I learn a tremendous amount from Twitter and vastly prefer it to needing to buy a book that I then need to skim to get the same info, or read a news article. Blogs have some advantages, but you can't really find them anymore, and I find my Twitter feed is higher signal than my care…
> I learn a tremendous amount from Twitter and vastly prefer it to needing to buy a book Is this "learning"? You sure get entertained, quick-and-easy-to-digest facts, good for short attention spans, and 5-10 minutes later you go back to whatever else you were doing. Or hop on the next "educative" twitter thread or somesuch. But have you actually learned something? If I ask you a week later to summarize your new insig…