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it's a "private" utility. But I take your point. If they remove all the fat making a tweet page 5mb it could be hosted for nearly nothing by some FOSS org.
by nvk 10y ago
it's a "private" utility. But I take your point.
If they remove all the fat making a tweet page 5mb it could be hosted for nearly nothing by some FOSS org.
- Jtsummers 10y agoExcept for all the backend connecting each user's messages to their followers. That's no mean feat. And certainly would cost more than "nearly nothing".
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoYes, Twitter's backend is actually quite sophisticated. It's one thing to build a very small Twitter clone for you and your friends, it's quite another to scale that up to hundreds of millions of users and keep everything running smoothly.
- overcast 10y agoBut that's exactly what is what as the beginning. Twitter spent a significant amount of its early days sitting on the Fail Whale screen. Sure, now it's stable, when you throw a complete rewrite, and millions of dollars at it.
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