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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by relaxing on Monday October 25, 2021 @01:58PM (#28991005)
You say that now, but Twitter also began as a way to send a quick message to your friends.
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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by recursive on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:43PM (#28992878)
You used to be able to use it as a way to create a free self-managing SMS distribution list. Pretty cool, before I had phone with data capabilities.

That was even a use case I understood. Now I feel too old to understand how to use twitter. But that can't be it. Much older people seem to have no problem.

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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by that_guy_iain on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @04:49AM (#28997957)
Umm it quickly pivoted to being a social networking site. Before they even were trying to scale they were a social network, micro blogging site.
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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by EschatonCometh on Monday October 25, 2021 @07:08PM (#28994329)
But, it wasn't built to scale like WhatsApp.
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