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Why are you getting downvoted? People seriously need to lighten up ;)
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Jeez if a person can't get excited about their own tech project on Hacker News, where can they??
Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave Company
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Twitter's Github: https://github.com/twitter Apache Aurora, Bootstrap, Storm, Heron, Pants, ThriftMux, DistributedLog, Apache Cotton, Iago, just to name a few.
Your post implies they made the libraries you listed, but they certainly didn't make Mesos or most of those things.
I think they played a big part in shaping Mesos early on if any of the interviews/talks I've listened to are any indicator. They were one of the early adopters and hired one of the people that created the project at Berkley.
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#153It feels like Twitter the company should be imploding, but it must be a secure business if its the next president's primary communication channel.
Frankly, I wouldn't mind if we saw an end to Trump's tweets. Not because of their content, but because of their impulsiveness, which is a behavior that Twitter's design encourages. Which is cool when it comes to celebrities and such in which it's fun to see what they think about sans filter. But the president of the United States speaks with the executive authority for an entire nation. It's questionable enough when…
There's no rational reason why a PotUS should be tweeting random impulsive thoughts to the world at large. Very few potential positives, a lot of potential negatives. It's pretty obvious that Trump should not be doing this, but alas, rationality went out of the window when he was voted into office.
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#154There is this thing called the foundation of America and it centres on what's called the 1st amendment. If you think twitter or any social platform should interfere with that and somehow grants him a platform to destroy the world then I suggest you re-evaluate your stance, stop over reacting like a 15 year old, and pick up a copy of 1984.
Before someone comments noting that the 1st amendment only restricts government and is not binding on twitter: please note that free speech is a valuable community principle for the same reasons it is a valuable legal principle. The "marketplace of ideas" is very real and very valuable and ought not be censored. Moreover, it is very hard to consider social networks in this day and age to be acting as anything other t…
Yeah this is pretty much my take (even though I was that person you mentioned)
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Twitter's problem isn't just that they have to fix harassment, it's that they have to do it without touching social justice activism that sure looks similar to it from the outside, right down to the doxing, threats, and smears. Oh, and they'll get no sympathy for getting this wrong as the difference is apparently obvious... except that everyone defines it differently (usually based on who their friends are) and simpl…
Isn't the platform just the best medium for harassing and trolling? What else can you do with 140 chars? Have you ever heard about good tweets? It's always negativity.
Twitter's popular with journalists for some reason, most likely because it's an easy way to find potential stories and promote their work. This is probably part of the problem - it means that when ordinary users are nasty to them or their friends it's personal, and the same when they or their friends get their accounts suspended.
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#156Twitter can make money, all it has to do is reduce its operational costs first. Then launch new products to grow. Twitter isn't going to become the new ad-sense or Facebook if it isn't a platform at first place. And you don't become a platform if your product isn't relevant to a lot of people. People use Google for search. People use Facebook to connect with friends and family. Who needs a Twitter account aside from…
i would totally pay a few dollars a month for an ad free experience on twitter
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#157Bigger to me is the VP of Product - Josh McFarland - just bailed out 30 minutes ago too: https://twitter.com/crazyfoo/status/811331557608652800 AKA outside of Dorsey, who is a split / shared CEO, who is in charge of Twitter?
Anthony Noto COO
http://www.recode.net/2016/12/6/13814264/twitter-anthony-not...
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#158when will we see the same for Facebook? If Twitter falls then it's a shift in investor's attitude towards "should make lots of money at unknown time down the road". Money today is more valuable than money tomorrow. Tech seems to have been a curious exception as it was in the 2000 bubble.
I don't see it happening any time soon if at all. Companies spend an insane amount of money advertising on Facebook platforms. If you're at all familiar with how companies buy ads in digital marketing, you'll realize how Facebook's targeting is super valuable and companies pay a pretty penny to target specific users.
Not to mention, Facebook is quite the pioneer in tech. React is one of the most used front end libraries and the community around it is super positive.
Then there's VR and their progress in 360 video. The list really goes on with Facebook.
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#159when will we see the same for Facebook? If Twitter falls then it's a shift in investor's attitude towards "should make lots of money at unknown time down the road". Money today is more valuable than money tomorrow. Tech seems to have been a curious exception as it was in the 2000 bubble.
Facebook is massive, at nearly 2 billion users they hold a monopoly that covers most of the connected world, and it's only going to continue to grow. They are not going away.
Twitter on the other hand, it's not that they have failed, but probably that they were aiming a bit too high. Investors were likely expecting another Facebook, but Twitter is never going to become that, because it's not perceived as a fundamental part of people's digital lives. Everyone has a Facebook account, but only some use Twitter.