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I think the specific situation with Twitter is that it takes a lot more people to create and update a system of this size than it does to merely maintain it. Th
by CydeWeys 4y ago
I think the specific situation with Twitter is that it takes a lot more people to create and update a system of this size than it does to merely maintain it. They simply no longer have the capacity to make a large new product at this point, but even a skeleton staff is enough to keep the existing product running.
- ppeetteerr 4y agoThat's why the cracks are small at first. Patches, new API connections to customers, and ambition will still cause some change, albeit small as you point out. Entropy in a living system always increases.
- revelio 4y agoTwitter was created originally by a much smaller team than even the one that Musk still has today.
- CydeWeys 4y agoTwitter (the product) has changed a lot since then too. It's much more complicated and does many more things. What it was like at the beginning isn't particularly relevant anymore.