So the Twitter lead engineer said "We're gonna learn from this". So they gone from 15 minutes (Smyte) to 4 days (Quill) - a 38400% improvement. /s
> It seems like it’s some property of Twitter’s acquisition process?
What if there are serious security vulnerabilities though? I could see having a process where founders don't turn over their source code until midnight when the deal closes, and then the acquiring company gets the option to shut it down immediately if there are serious and unfixable security vulnerabilities discovered between midnight and 10am when the press release goes out.
I'm not saying this hypothetical process is a good one, much less that this is what happened, but I could certainly imagine things playing out this way.
Re:Twitter acquires Quill
by atdrummond on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:51PM
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I feel bad whenever I read about this because I’m friends with a Smyte founder and I know they absolutely didn’t want things to play out the way they did. I had hoped Twitter learned their lesson.
Re:Twitter acquires Quill
by breakingcups on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @03:53PM
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Apparently also happened with an app called Squad, exactly a year ago. https://twitter.com/squad/status/1337398991210725379
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/a...