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As a reminder, Whatsapp had *35* engineers for 450M users at the time of its acquisition by FB (2014). It had *50* engineers for 900M users (2015). https://www
by toto 4y ago
As a reminder, Whatsapp had *35* engineers for 450M users at the time of its acquisition by FB (2014). It had *50* engineers for 900M users (2015).
https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-users-50-engineers/#:~:text=When%20the%20company%20was%20acquired,almost%20entirely%20on%20its%20own https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us....
- amrocha 4y agoYou must not work in tech if you think Twitter and Whatsapp are in any way comparable
- omeze 4y agothese comparisons to whatsapp are really tiring, twitter is a totally different product. twitter is more similar to facebook than whatsapp from an engineering requirement's perspective, messaging is a minor feature of twitter's. even from a non-tech perspective, the presence of public data & the moderation requirements that entails alone makes it operationally different enough to not be a good comparison...