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It's interesting to look at it from a different angle. It took them years with a planned deployment of several weeks to increase the character limit. In a smal
by Illniyar 9y ago
It's interesting to look at it from a different angle. It took them years with a planned deployment of several weeks to increase the character limit.
In a small or even medium sized startup, this kind of decision will be a single product manager's decision and most likely be implemented in a day or two at most.
This kind of rigidness, bureaucracy and slowness is what makes big companies play catchup with small startups.And Twitter is at the top percentages of technologically competent, modern companies - imagine such a change in banks, or chain stores.
- FanaHOVA 9y agoThis has nothing to do with bureaucracy, this has to do with making sure the changes don't ruin the feel of your product and alienates your power users. It's not like they decided a year ago and then had to wait 6 months for somebody to sign a piece of paper.
- Illniyar 9y agoNo, but I'm guessing there were many meetings, committees, getting approval from the top, etc... involved. That is still bureaucracy.