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Re:Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of t... by harryh on Friday October 14, 2016 @04:57PM (#12711047)
The vast majority of current twitter engineers have nothing to do with keeping fail whales at bay.
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Re:Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of t... by duaneb on Friday October 14, 2016 @05:21PM (#12711171)
Isn't that the whole point of hiring engineers? To keep your service running? It's not going to maintain itself.
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Re:Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of t... by harryh on Friday October 14, 2016 @05:59PM (#12711433)
Isn't that the whole point of hiring engineers?

No. If all twitter cared about was keeping the existing service running they could do it with 1/10th the current technical staff.

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