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How does everyone know how Twitter works? Doesn't it use proprietary code?
by tentacleuno 3y ago
How does everyone know how Twitter works? Doesn't it use proprietary code?
- losthubble 3y agoWell they open sourced part of it, https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm and then I'm pretty sure Elon had a whiteboard session during his first days before firing everyone and had people explain it to him. Which he then posted on his twitter account. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593899029531803649?s=20 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593899029531803649?s=20
- bagels 3y agoThey have published a lot of blogs over the years, eg: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2023/how-we-scaled-reads-on-the-twitter-users-database https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...