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I wish people would stop with this pointless comparison. WhatsApp did not have recommendations, advertising, content moderation, GDPR, DCMA etc or the volume o
by threeseed 4y ago
I wish people would stop with this pointless comparison.
WhatsApp did not have recommendations, advertising, content moderation, GDPR, DCMA etc or the volume of bots. It is simply not a comparable system.
And it is the backend systems you don't see that make up most of the tech stack.
- postalrat 4y agoOr might do if people stop saying twitter's scale is why it needed so many engineers.
- norwalkbear 4y agoDo those system justify have 10-20x the engineers? Honest question, I'm a game dev. In my industry, we outsource a lot of that stuff.
- tredre3 4y agoI personally could see a need for 10-20x the engineers, they're solving a very different problem. But twitter had 7500 employees in 2021, of which about half were engineering (reports I found vary between 3500 to 4500), so that's at least 65x the engineers!
- s1artibartfast 4y agoA Counterpoint is that Twitter had 350 employees in 2013 and about 200 million users
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoNo, but Fb had 1500 employees in 2011, and it was much bigger and profitable at that time. I think that's the more appropriate comparison.