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Is there enough demand in the San Francisco area to absorb say 20% of Twitter employees? It always feels like everyone is hiring out there.
They have over 30 offices so some if not most will be in other offices around the world.
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How else would you process notifications, etc?
Well, you can do write fanout, or you can do read fanout.
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Hubris, much?
Experience with messaging platforms. Keep in mind that Twitters platform is not particularly high volume for messaging systems. It is reasonably high volume for messaging between people . But people tweet rarely enough for Twitters overall volume to be all that special. And Twitters core message exchange functionality is conceptually extremely simple. You need to be able to take a message, and put it into the set of…
I tried Googling reflectors but nothing relevant turns up.
Do they have 20% time?
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Is there enough demand in the San Francisco area to absorb say 20% of Twitter employees? It always feels like everyone is hiring out there.
Absolutely. And if this is a sign of a few unicorns starting to drop, you're better off being one of the first ones to go than the last. This is probably a very wise move. 4000 employees is just insane for what they do. Grow wisely.
Yes and no. Twitter will make ~$2 Billion in revenue this year (and it's their massive revenue growth that's kept the stock price where it's at). That takes a LOT of sales and marketing people to achieve.
The twitter tears are flowing in this thread
Scaling twitter is fucking overrated if you look at the work engineers at WhatsApp did. There's a reason why a whatsapp engineer is worth 100 more than the average twitter engineer. The twitter tears are flowing in this thread
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> Think before you type a rude comment too, most Twitter people read HN and will see it. :-/ No criticism? Is it bad if I say that they have a very simple product that doesn't need so much people? Is it bad if I say every feature they add they ruin it more? Is it bad if I say I would rather go back to 2010 Twitter?
I'm talking about rude comments about the intelligent people that work there. Where do you work, lets compare products/people and the impact the product makes on the world shall we?
There are intelligent people that work at many companies. You should avoid rude comments about people in general. Twitter is not special in this.
> Where do you work, lets compare products/people and the impact the product makes on the world shall we?
This is fairly egotistical. Twitter doesn't solve all problems for the world. It's a great service, but your comment is fairly negative and insulting. Especially for someone that only recently joined.
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I don't think the final question is realistic. I have 20K followers (not huge, but far beyond who I could realistically ever "know") and get huge value from it as an individual, not as a business. It would be so boring (to me) to only be able to talk to people one knows closely. There are numerous non-company non-celebs-in-the-Hollywood-sense-of-the-word people who have huge followings on Twitter who get a lot of val…
Soooo... RSS? Isn't that what you've just described? You could run that on a pretty small web server....
RSS is fine for plumbing and pros but has not evolved into anything resembling a user-friendly system.
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Soooo... RSS? Isn't that what you've just described? You could run that on a pretty small web server....
RSS lacks one-click follow, recommendations, favorites, push of new updates, native replies, and uniformity of message size, and if you could sweep those things under the rug, Twitter wouldn't be as large as it is. RSS is fine for plumbing and pros but has not evolved into anything resembling a user-friendly system.
Twitter has way more features than RSS, but do people really use "favorites" that often? The tweets I "fav'd" I don't really go back and check later, or maybe I'm not the targeted demographic