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Re:Twitter Plans Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week by user5994461 on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @06:30AM (#12786707)
WhatsApp is a simple, single purpose app.

It's not a complex engineering problem at all. Maybe it could be if it were done in the year 2000. It is not nowadays.

[Granted, there is still work to be done to make a decent product, they had great people and they executed very well.]

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Re:Twitter Plans Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week by majewsky on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:57PM (#12790614)
And isn't Twitter a simple, single-purpose app, too? (At least before they purchased Vine and Periscope.)
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Re:Twitter Plans Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week by user5994461 on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @07:26PM (#12792679)
Twitter and Wikipedia were created more than 10 years ago. It was way more challenging at the time.

Just think about the infrastructure for example. There was no SoftLayer/AWS to save your ass. You had to handle servers/hardware on your own. That alone could use a (small) company.

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