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When I look at Twitter, I think first about the business model, and then I think about the app. I think, today, it's a lot easier to build Twitter the user faci
by nemothekid 3y ago
When I look at Twitter, I think first about the business model, and then I think about the app. I think, today, it's a lot easier to build Twitter the user facing app, even at scale.
Where I see your engineering headcount blow up is in moderation, legal and advertising; which I think everyone skips over when doing their mental math. Campaign management, targeting, reporting, and optimization on such a large corpus of data is where I struggle to see even a team of 5 building that in a couple of weekends.