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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

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.