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Hate to bring Twitter up here. But this makes one even more puzzled about where Twitter's R&D costs of $90 million goes! Sure there are open source stuff they p
by techtivist 13y ago
Hate to bring Twitter up here. But this makes one even more puzzled about where Twitter's R&D costs of $90 million goes! Sure there are open source stuff they put up on http://twitter.github.io/ http://twitter.github.io/ and there's bootstratp. But none of it is the sort of cutting edge research that the likes of LinkedIN and FB seem to be doing. Looking up posts on their blog with "research" tag also returns dismal results.
- corin_ 13y agoI've no idea what source of R&D Twitter does, but you can't necessarily judge them based on what they blog about or release papers on, plenty could be going on behind closed doors.
- Irishsteve 13y agor&d most likely relates to product development and isn't academic research. By listing it as r&d they can probably write something off with the tax man. Things such as their discovery tab, targeted tweets, trending, search and user search most likely involve (Or involved) reasonable investigation.
- evmar 13y agoThere's a tax credit for claiming your work is R&D: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_&_Experimentation_Tax_Credit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_&_Experimentation_Tax_... This creates an incentive for companies to find ways to report their work as R&D. (Not implying that Twitter is defrauding or that their work isn't R&D, just stating why it might be useful for a company to "invest in" R&D, especially if that is work they wanted done anyway.)