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The Twitter product has not meaningfully changed or evolved in 10 years. Revenue and user growth and product stagnated. So who cares about optimizing a further
by sn0w_crash 4y ago
The Twitter product has not meaningfully changed or evolved in 10 years.
Revenue and user growth and product stagnated. So who cares about optimizing a further 100ms improvement or what OSS they maintained?
The “interesting stuff” you see in this post is what many engineers love to do. Make work for the sake of work. It doesn’t always translate into growth.
- agentdrtran 4y ago> The Twitter product has not meaningfully changed or evolved in 10 years. In the last few years alone they made huge changes like Blue, reader mode, ad-free articles, super follows, birdwatch, spaces/ticketed spaces, the list goes on.
- zimpenfish 4y agoAll under an FTC consent degree which required "that Twitter produce written privacy assessments of any new “product, service or practice” — or when Twitter updates those things — that could affect user data or put it at risk."[1] - not an environment where you can "move fast and break things"! [1] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/11/tech/musk-twitter-ftc/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/11/tech/musk-twitter-ftc/ind...
- usednet 4y ago> The Reddit product has not meaningfully changed or evolved in 10 years > The Apple product has not meaningfully changed or evolved in 10 years > The WhatsApp product has not meaningfully changed or evolved in 10 years
- sn0w_crash 4y agoHow are these good examples? Those product’s revenue streams and user bases have grown tremendously. Twitter’s workforce bloat has outpaced both its users, revenue, and its share price.