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There are two very different questions: 1. Could twitter have been built in such a way that it was a stable company with half as many people? 2. Could you cho
by zug_zug 4y ago
There are two very different questions:
1. Could twitter have been built in such a way that it was a stable company with half as many people?
2. Could you chop X% of twitter off and have the remainder of the company want to and be able to restructure and self-repair into a stable company.
I think the answer to #1 is yes, but #2 is a complete mystery to me.
It's the difference between "Could a raspberry pi run linux?" and "Can I remove half material in my mac by weight of my mac and still have it run linux?"
- MuffinFlavored 4y agoat its core twitter is ad delivery + a timeline of followers/curated recommendations you can make a twitter clone front + back in a night from scratch they already have the hard “scale” to handle lots of traffic in a stable/fast manner done how many employees and managers do you need to maintain this + add new features? 7,000 seems pretty high. 3,000 sounds kind of high too but i don’t know the split between departments like legal, HR, etc.