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          1. Also: Twitter didn't turn off share counts as some brilliant strategy. They did it because they can't return investment on that scale cost.
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          The Cloud is ability to infinity scale. That ability doesn't come w/out cost. If, like Twitter, you are unable to scale profit to cost...
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        ... then you start turning pieces off so the cost of scale comes down.
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      Facebook *doesn't* have this problem.
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    The number one thing most industry-watchers miss is that providing an API *costs money*. More money the more people use it.
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      Shit, what am I saying, most people who start up companies that provide APIs miss it too.
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        And an API that provides share counts is--by its nature--difficult to cache. Which means it was, for Twitter, no doubt an expensive endpoint


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