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There might be good work going on there, but, us users, see little progress in the last few years. Facebook is only two years older than twitter and, in additi
by drewvolpe 15y ago
There might be good work going on there, but, us users, see little progress in the last few years. Facebook is only two years older than twitter and, in addition to a basic status feed has added an amazing amount of functionality: photos, groups, apps, a very powerful ad system, etc. All the while, it's had a very high uptime and reliability.
- x5315 15y agoTwitter solves an elementally different problem to Facebook, which may lead to the disparity in features that you see and has previously caused issues with scalability. The Twitter engineering blog (http://engineering.twitter.com/ http://engineering.twitter.com/) details some of the fundamental systems development we've been doing to solve these issues and give us a better platform. From this, we can launch better products. I can't go into specifics, but there's some really good stuff coming in the future.