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  Ashley Wright (@ashley_wright) reported 16 seconds ago

  The uncomfortable truth about TikTok Shop: Most brands aren't actually ready for it. Nobody says this out loud because it sounds like the platform's fault when it isn't. Agencies won't say it because it kills the pitch. Brands won't say it because it means admitting the gap is internal, not external. The platform punishes slow decision-making. A creator needs an answer the same day, not after three rounds of internal approval. A product takes off in a livestream and inventory needs to move within hours, not after next week's planning meeting. Most brands have built systems for stability, not speed, and that works fine on Amazon but falls apart here. Accepting this means building a team that can move at the platform's pace instead of looking for a better creator strategy. This isn't a knock on any brand. Most brands were built for a slower pace of decision-making than TikTok Shop demands.

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  Vishwanath Patil (@patilvishi) reported 3 minutes ago

  Horizontal Scaling ≠ Vertical Scaling I still see these two terms confused in interviews and architecture discussions. The difference is actually simple: Horizontal Scaling (Scale Out) ➜ Add more servers or instances to distribute the load. Vertical Scaling (Scale Up) ➜ Add more CPU, RAM, or storage to a single server. Quick memory trick 👇 - Horizontal = More Machines - Vertical = More Power When to use what? Horizontal Scaling - Better for high traffic applications - Improves fault tolerance - Supports almost unlimited growth - Common in cloud-native and microservice architectures Vertical Scaling - Easier to implement - Great for smaller workloads - Limited by the hardware capacity of one machine - A single server failure can impact the entire application Real-world example: Need to handle Black Friday traffic? ➜ Add 10 more application servers (Horizontal). Your database is CPU-bound? ➜ Upgrade from 8 vCPUs to 32 vCPUs (Vertical). The biggest internet-scale systems- Netflix, Amazon, Google, and many SaaS platforms primarily rely on horizontal scaling to serve millions of users. Saved this as a handwritten cheat sheet for quick revision. Hope it helps!

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  Star Spangled Patriot✨🇺🇸 (@CowboysChica) reported 3 minutes ago

  @HistorianUSA1 @TimesOutPost @amazon you better knock this **** off. If it happens in my driveway, there will be problems!!

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  nicknasty206 (@NIckNasty20Six) reported 5 minutes ago

  @JJan1972 It’s so exciting. My only issue is that I’ve been unable to order the ultimate edition because of tax code reasons that are being sorted out. So hopefully that gets taken care of. I have backup order on Amazon, but obviously prefer ultimate edition for the huge price savings

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  SolidSkullz (@Solid_Skullz) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Cheesoart Dear lord Amazon position and everything. He’s getting destroyed down there, really nice

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  Evelynn~•°•▪︎☆ (@Just_a_Bunnii) reported 10 minutes ago

  Whats that like, Amazon position but the dudes lying down and its like *************** but she's *between* his legs riding him?!

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  suchit bauskar (@bauskarsuchit) reported 11 minutes ago

  @AmazonHelp My order not completed due to an Amazon Pay Later issue. The order failed, amount was charged and the refund has not been received yet, days have passed without resolution. Kindly investigate and process refund immediately #AmazonIndia #RefundPending #AmazonPayLater

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  Paprika Girl (@PaprikaGirl_JP) reported 19 minutes ago

  @davidrmunson I’ll make a print when the fourth issue of my zine is out (do one of those PoD things on Amazon). It means so much to have a physical copy.

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  Benjamin Bakhshi (@benbstwits) reported 20 minutes ago

  @stoked_on_waves @CapitalShipyard Amazon is still renting A100s from 6 years ago profitably. They don't physically depreciate, they just are slow compared to future GPUs (thanks to $ASML), but they still aren't functionally obsolete since they are still way more efficient than any older school CPU data center.

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  twodpro (@_twodpro) reported 22 minutes ago

  “Variety understands that, prior to being dropped by Amazon, “Artificial” already had several test screenings, which went down very positively, and screened for other studios on Thursday…”

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  Gail Welshie (@GailWelshie) reported 25 minutes ago

  I stopped paying the TV licence fee 4 years ago, got rid of my TV and don’t watch live TV. I don’t have a contract with the BBC! Today I got a threatening letter from @tvlicensing telling me that my “claim” that I don’t need a TV licence has “expired” and my address is “now unlicensed.” “This means we may have to investigate and an Officer could check if you’re watching TV without a licence…” “You must buy a TV licence or claim No Licence Needed to avoid further action.” Well, there is NO legal requirement for me to tell ‘TV licensing’ that I don’t watch live TV and that I don’t need a TV licence! No “Officer” from ‘TV licensing’ has a legal right to enter my property uninvited, without a court ordered warrant to do so. To obtain that warrant, the “Officer” would have to prove to the magistrates ‘just cause’ (ie, with evidence)! As I don’t watch live TV, good luck with that then, “Officer.” In other words, because I’ve received that misleading, and threatening, letter, I’m digging in my heels and won’t be bullied into notifying ‘TV licensing’ of a licence I haven’t got, and have no legal obligation to inform them of a licence I haven’t got, don’t need or want, and don’t miss! @lisanandy you need to stop ‘TV licensing’ from sending threatening letters. And, if the BBC needs more money for the BS it churns out these days, either make it pay for itself or close it down. Don’t go looking for other ways to tax folk for watching Netflix or Amazon Prime recorded programmes and films! That won’t work either because most people will just stop subscribing - so be warned! Folk subscribe to those providers because they provide plenty of ‘non-live recordings’ which are far better than anything the BBC produces!

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  Lavelle launchHub| KDP service 📚📖📘 (@lavelle_Hub) reported 28 minutes ago

  @HazelSi21355568 You’re right, keyword tweaks alone don’t move much if there are deeper structural issues. When I run audits, keywords are just one layer. I also look at things like indexing behaviour, crawlability signals, category placement conflicts, and how the book is internally “reading” to Amazon’s system (not just what’s visible on the surface). A lot of visibility problems actually come from misalignment between metadata, category depth, how Amazon is interpreting the content, which is why I don’t treat it as a quick keyword fix. Curious though 🤔, when you say internal links, are you referring more to external site structure, or how you’re mapping discoverability signals back to Amazon indexing?

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  Lying KJP (@LyingKJP) reported 28 minutes ago

  @dcjourneyman @sarahhepola Tire shops hate that fix a flat. They typically use a method that takes the tire off fast, and that crap will get all over the place Tire plugs are the way to go. Amazon has some weird rubber/plastic screws that will fix the tire If the hole is in the sidewall the tire shop doesn’t fix, it needs a replacement. Happened to me once

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  Pete Sanford (@PeteSanford) reported 34 minutes ago

  @UKLabour I am glad I had that cheeky £10 on Starmer Out by 2027. (I wish I had a spare £10) So Burnham goes to meet Starmer at the weekend where Krazy Keir will lay out his demands to avoid the Labour Party descending into total chaos. Total Chaos being the MO of all Labour Parties since, and including, Tony Blair who began the destabilisation of the Middle East... So he could get several well paying gigs, to Fix It. There, obviously, is a theme running through these Labour PM Appointees. THEY ALL SEEM F*****N NUTS tHE gOOD nEWS: Andy Burn 'Em is NOT NUTS He is a whole lot of other stuff, but that will be revealed in the next six months. Starmer's List: Elevated to the Lords by 2028 Private Papers Withheld for Fifty Years Handsome Financial Pay-Out Security Briefing Notes Shredded £1000 Amazon Gift Tokens for "Adult Products" The Labour Party - Standing for Honesty & Integrity

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  David Robinson (@CalgaryDave) reported 39 minutes ago

  If there was an Amazon Store where you could pay $25, and get your Alberta Independence Lawn sign in the mail - would you buy one? Or wait until an event near you opened where there was availability? Poll: