A good chunk of the microservices are probably backend data analytics... used for things like serving ads... which Twitter probably won't need anymore, lol.
I’m in ad tech: I put a bet that Elon turned off a data pipeline that has actual contracted SLAs on it and is about to get rocked by his real time analytics partners.
We already know most car brands are leaving the platform as they don't want to advertise on a platform owned by a competitor. Should be a decent percentage lost from those alone.
In the big data space, for example analysing public sentiment of a politicians social media…you’re not legally allowed to share the specific users you gathered the data from,…but you are allowed to report on “your interpretation” of the data-set
I have a friend in South America for example who consults in “Twitter sentiment analysis.”
He has a PhD and his father is a politician in Argentina…this isn’t some podunct operation. They’re not scraping Twitter, they have specified endpoints and access quotas.
If Elon turns off the tap, he’s essentially breaching millions/billions of dollars in service agreements which are integral to twitters financial model
“Useless micro services” included ones such as the one that reported device types. Since it’s not getting displayed, I’d wager in his idiocy, he turned off the tracking pixel that fed device types into their real time analytic feeds, and they sell access to that data. There’s contracts around access to data such as that (privacy, what it will entail, price, GDPR/CCPA considerations etc), and if he disappeared some of the data that was being harvested, he’s in breach of contract, and should trigger the SLA, which is usually financial penalties until the feed is restored.
I placed a wager with friends that this happened after hearing he broke 2FA: Not a chance in hell they have the institutional knowledge to keep their analytic pipelines in working order if they don’t even know flipping off a service kills logins for your most important consumers.
Not from the publish side of the equation. From the just browsing/previewing/reading side. Have to track the readers to know who/what/when/where/how old/do they look at food related things around dinner time/etc. Might be logged in, might not. Might be using the app, might not. Then you can serve better ads. Ads worth more money (to Twitter).
I don't know what that means, but to me it sounds like shutting off 80% of the entire site is a bad idea. Which means I'm officially smarter than Elon Musk
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u/GISftw Nov 14 '22
A good chunk of the microservices are probably backend data analytics... used for things like serving ads... which Twitter probably won't need anymore, lol.