A spit take-worthy line: Twitter’s backend was initially built on Ruby on Rails, a rudimentary web-application framework that made it nearly impossible to find

A spit take-worthy line: Twitter’s backend was initially built on Ruby on Rails, a rudimentary web-application framework that made it nearly impossible to find a technical solution to the harassment problem. That this claim could make it unchallenged into the piece shows two things: (1) Non-technical journalists—even generally sharp observers of online culture like Kosoff—need to have domain experts they can run this sort of thing by for a sanity check. (2) Twitter sources are willing to throw up pure shite if they think they can get away with it.