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I bet if you never thought about Twitter again, you'd be just fine. There is no 9-9-6 culture shift, there is no value shift in software engineers across the c

I bet if you never thought about Twitter again, you'd be just fine. There is no 9-9-6 culture shift, there is no value shift in software engineers across the country, there is no need to build a Twitter competitor, none of this actually matters.

Vervious 4y ago
The half billion monthly active users and $5B annual revenue beg to differ. And it trickles down in the form of paychecks — does that matter?
- Finnucane 4y ago
  The world will move on.
  - Vervious 4y ago
    What an impotent philosophy. The world moves on from everything. Why bother stalking hacker news if this is not the sort of thing that interests you?
    - Finnucane 4y ago
      More like a recognition that in a macroeconomic sense, Twitter really does not matter. In a cultural sense, we are better off without.
    - krapp 4y ago
      This forum is about satisfying intellectual curiosity, not chasing the bag.
- matai_kolila 4y ago
  No, it doesn't matter. Twitter is unimportant to this world.