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I guess it's a question of priorities: work on something 15 people use, or something 15 million people will use? :)

• Timothee 18y ago
  Oh yeah, absolutely. It's just that it seems that half an hour of CSS would make it cleaner and I'm surprised that nobody at Twitter finished something on a Friday afternoon and thought "ok, let me clean this up a little bit" instead of starting something else :)
  • vaksel 18y ago
    Judging by Twitter's uptime record in the past, they probably have had an experience where someone thought that, started coding, and crashed the whole site.
    • benreesman 18y ago
      I like making fun of Twitter as much as the next guy, although in all fairness when I saw this graph I decided to give them a little more credit. They're facing ongoing, unbounded growth. I can't claim to have handled that kind of scaling, let alone handled it without a hitch. http://alexa.com/siteinfo/twitter.com http://alexa.com/siteinfo/twitter.com (make sure to set the timeframe to 'max' to see what i'm talking about)
      • moe 18y ago
        They're facing ongoing, unbounded growth. ...on an app that consists of a solved problem (pub/sub). Cry me a river. Or better yet, give me a million dollars and I'll build you a twitter that doesn't fail. In 60 days. You'll just have to bring the users.