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Why bother purchasing a search layer when they can't even scale right...they're not prioritizing
by kajecounterhack 18y ago
Why bother purchasing a search layer when they can't even scale right...they're not prioritizing
- jrockway 18y agoThey are probably worried about what happens if they continue to not be able to scale. If they add search, perhaps they can charge money for people data-mining tweets, and get some cash to continue to focus on scaling. Right now Twitter needs to keep current users excited, because we're all really tired of Twitter's downtime. The only thing keeping us on Twitter is the other Twitter users. If a critical mass of users leaves, Twitter becomes a distant memory. They are probably trying to avoid that by adding features that don't kill their current database. Just speculation, of course. Sometimes it's a good idea to assume that they are making a good move instead of thinking that you're clearly smarter than them and they are "teh fail" for doing this.