pm> I think you are completely missing the significance of this.. How many servers and data centres would Twt have...

twitter is insignificant.

(iirc, the answer is none. it's all colocated leases in somebody else's datacentres).

it'd be like opening a petrol station that only filled up John Deere brand lawnmowers (and only the ones sold by Sears).

in contrast, we're focusing on serving all the oil refineries on the planet.

that's significant.

R.