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Yes it's incredible to see so many people on _hacker news_ who don't understand how much work it is to keep even moderately large (low millions of users) servic

• wink 4y ago
  Yes, and repeatedly people point out that high dozens or low hundreds should be enough but they have thousands (allegedly). I think the point you are missing that especially tech people might have been using twitter for 10 years like a public IRC client. Open App/Browser, read messages, write messages, complain about lack of linear timeline, close app. Yes, it has grown, but they added a million features that probably none of the people here asked for. We don't necessarily follow Justin Bieber where the system needs to be able to handle 2m users connected, we follow a kernel developer with 2000 followers. I guess it's a marvel of engineering that's mostly needed for whatever method they found to make money off, I'm still asking myself this after these years.