As we mentioned in the article, Instagram just spent ~25 person-years building Threads which is a barebones clone of Twitter. Not only did we build our instance

As we mentioned in the article, Instagram just spent ~25 person-years building Threads which is a barebones clone of Twitter. Not only did we build our instance 30x faster than that, we have way more features like federation, hashtag follows, polls, DMs, global timelines, and more. And Instagram didn't start from scratch as Instagram/Meta already had infrastructure powering similar products. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/29/meta-threads-mark-zuckerberg-rival-twitter-musk/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/29/meta-th...