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Google has solved many of the hard problems that would render twitter a trivial. I am not declaring a 150 line python script would duplicate it, but that Google
by brianobush 16y ago
Google has solved many of the hard problems that would render twitter a trivial. I am not declaring a 150 line python script would duplicate it, but that Google could easily build a similar service. Now mindshare is a different story.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoYes, but no. Google's systems are tuned to google's apps, twitter is similar but also different in some fundamental ways. The complexity of rendering every individual twitter feed is pretty significant compared to, say, gmail, and the same optimizations do not always make sense. Moreover, the complexity of the SMS back-end should not be dismissed. While google certainly has the chops to handle all of these problems, including SMS, it's still a bit much to say that google engineers could reinvent twitter better and faster with little effort. The biggest piece of evidence that this is the case is the simple fact that they haven't yet. Despite trying (see: buzz).