How Twitter Made the Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback

Posted by minimaxir on Thursday June 21, 2018 @12:16PM
from the buzzfeed.com dept.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/how-twitter-made-the-tech-worlds-most-unlikely-comeback

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Re:How Twitter Made the Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback by timmytwotime on Thursday June 21, 2018 @04:03PM (#17368780)

I'll go ahead and say what everyone else is thinking: Donald Trump saved Twitter.

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Re:How Twitter Made the Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback by sincerely on Thursday June 21, 2018 @01:04PM (#17367011)

Why is Twitter considered part of the "tech world"? Is there anything interesting going on under the hood besides engineering for scale?

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Re:How Twitter Made the Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback by danso on Thursday June 21, 2018 @02:53PM (#17368190)

It's considered a tech company because it is a relatively new IPO, based out of San Francisco, and is heavily dependent on software engineering. Why would you not consider it part of the "tech world"?

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Re:How Twitter Made the Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback by Apocryphon on Friday June 22, 2018 @01:14AM (#17371515)

Ever heard of Bootstrap?

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Re:How Twitter Made the Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback by sincerely on Friday June 22, 2018 @12:07PM (#17375057)

I had, but I didn't realize it was developed at Twitter. That's interesting, thanks!

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Re:How Twitter Made the Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback by arisAlexis on Friday June 22, 2018 @07:04AM (#17373031)

that was bitcoin dead :)

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