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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by icebraining on Sunday October 09, 2016 @05:58PM (#12673744)
Whatsapp only had 50 engineers even when they reached 900M users. Now, granted, Twitter may be a more complex system, but assuming they would just be maintaining it, they could be enough.
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by dagamer34 on Sunday October 09, 2016 @06:13PM (#12673830)
WhatsApp isn't real-time, and there's no reason for traffic 2 weeks ago to be any bigger than tomorrow.

However, there's a Presidential Debate tonight so you know Twitter's traffic is going to be off the charts.

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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by seizethecheese on Sunday October 09, 2016 @06:22PM (#12673880)
WhatsApp isn't real time?
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by mullen on Sunday October 09, 2016 @08:23PM (#12674320)
Twitter and WhatsApp are both Real Time. However, if they could save a lot money going from Real Time to Near Real Time, they should do it.
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Re:Could Twitter Be Better Off as a Nonprofit? by GFischer on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:10AM (#12683573)
I don't know where you live, but people use Whatsapp groups a lot during and after an event.
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