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It's important to remember that Twitter is not, in fact, Whatsapp. A person-to-person messaging app is going to be far less complex than a global social network
by badwolf 4y ago
It's important to remember that Twitter is not, in fact, Whatsapp. A person-to-person messaging app is going to be far less complex than a global social network.
Bringing up "Whatsapp only had 32 employees" seems like a lazy point to make to handwave away any actual arguments.
- jacquesm 4y agoThat's true. But: If Twitter was built using Whatsapp's tech stack (Erlang, which they've let go in the meantime) then chances are that they would have used a lot less staff than they did. It is extremely well suited to this kind of problem.
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- rsynnott 4y agoEh... I don't really see it. Erlang is good for the WhatsApp problem; shunting binary blobs around between lots and lots and lots of clients, and maintaining some sort of shared state of what clients exist and whether they're online or not. This is not really a problem that Twitter has, though. Or at least not a significant part of Twitter's problems; they do have to do some web-push stuff, and sure, they could use Erlang for that, why not, but it's not a big part of their problems. And as for the rest of Twitter... well, Erlang is notably bad at handling _text_, for a start.