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Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter?
Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter?
When WhatsApp was sold to Facebook in 2014, it had almost half a billion monthly users, but a team of just 50 people running everything. Compare this to Twitter, which today has a staff of 7,500 to manage half the number of users. Yet Musk is the crazy one here for suggesting that maybe Twitter could operate with a mere TWO THOUSAND em...
·world.hey.com·
Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter?
App Release Notes Are Getting Stupid – TechCrunch
App Release Notes Are Getting Stupid – TechCrunch
"Bug fixes." "Jam packed full of Super Amazing Things." "Every 3 weeks, we polish up the Pinterest app to make it faster and better than ever." "To make our app better for you, we bring updates to the App Store every 2 weeks...Every update of our Facebook app includes improvements for spee…
·techcrunch.com·
App Release Notes Are Getting Stupid – TechCrunch
Twitter is testing big ol’ full-width photos and videos
Twitter is testing big ol’ full-width photos and videos
Twitter is exploring ways to build a more visually immersive experience with its latest test, which brings edge-to-edge tweets to the app on iOS. Full-width images and videos track for the direction the company has shown some interest in going lately. Twitter introduced bigger images with improved …
·techcrunch.com·
Twitter is testing big ol’ full-width photos and videos
Software Crisis 2.0
Software Crisis 2.0
If you prefer your longer reading in ebook form, this 60 page essay is available as a PDF, EPUB, or MOBI. (MOBI format is entirely untested!) An essay on our industry's core expertise: failed software projects. The First Software Crisis Back in the early days of computing, we were, as always, extremely bad at making software. Except it was fine as most computers were practically custom-made to their purpose and only had the power to be able to tackle relatively simple problems.
·baldurbjarnason.com·
Software Crisis 2.0