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If they have a deeper understanding of these things, then why haven't they produced a real competitor?

• ambichook 3y ago
  probably because of the classic "making twitter is easy, getting twitter to a billion people is hard"
• dragontamer 3y ago
  Elon didn't build anything on Twitter. He paid $44 Billion for the website and then collapsed it.
• nebula8804 3y ago
  Well Threads is making pretty decent strides given that it was spun up in record time (by ex-Twitter employees that have an ax to grind for some reason)
  • sangnoir 3y ago
    There were no ex-Twitter employees involved in Threads at the time it launched. AFAICT, it was a frontend over a pared-down Instagram comment-system. Designing something like Twitter isn't hard, and it used to be a pretty common design question that could be answered in 30 minutes or less. Instagram certainly doesn't need outside help to help scale stuff, let alone people specifically from Twitter.
    • nebula8804 3y ago
      >There were no ex-Twitter employees involved in Threads at the time it launched. This is not what I heard. I heard they hired up tons of prominent ex-Twitter. >AFAICT, it was a frontend over a pared-down Instagram comment-system. Do you use it? I do and it does not seem to operate that way. It is a more involved than that. Yes they did rely on IG's infrastructure to help speed up development but this was a deliberate design choice and I don't blame them: They have this large asset of users and built up infrastructure, might as well use this advantage.