Re:Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit
by bhandziuk on Thursday October 26, 2017 @03:00PM
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But as with many engineering challenges, throwing more people at the problem doesn't solve it faster and often makes things worse. A harder problem to solve might just need and other person or two or more time but thousands of people? It does seem excessive, right?
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Re:Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit
by sanderjd on Friday October 27, 2017 @11:36PM
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Honestly, it's impossible for me to say whether it seems excessive, because I have no idea what it takes to run their business. But I don't think you have any inside information either, do you?
Let me put it this way: I think it's arrogant that management consulting companies think they can send in a couple recent ivy league grads to learn about a company for a few weeks and then suggest a bunch of changes. This is like that, but without even bothering to go in and learn about the company at all.
Re:Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit
by bhandziuk on Monday October 30, 2017 @05:38PM
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No, I don't know anything more that you. But I can contrast the scale of Twitter with other comparable, realtime, multi user sites like reddit and stackoverflow. Both of those sites have 230 and ~330 (I didn't count all the SO employees), respectively. And Stackoverflow is actually selling a product. Is Twitter so different from these sites?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit https://stackoverflow.com/company/team