Digging deeper into the comments it seems someone found the message was from a compromised polyfill code that was running on IA. Now the website is down from a ddos. From what I can see there’s no reason to believe their servers and the data therein have been compromised.

Have you not seen the literally cans of oxygen they now sell? I see them every time I go to my pharmacy

It sounds like a YouTube clone from the article, so long form videos storage and streaming isn’t cheap, a lot more expensive than what x usually hosts in terms of bandwidth and storage per views. But yeah also seems like a niche use case.

Still no way there’s a net cost benefit to video hosting from as revenue.

Video hosting in general is not profitable, this is almost certainly not gonna do anything to help Twitter survive, hopefully they’ll shoot themselves in foot even more.

That’s a fair take and I’ve certainly heard horror stories about the invasive programs WFH people have been made to install on their devices.

Maybe it just feels like it’d be easier to spy on you in the building they own haha.

It’s also easier to spy on their employees