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Re:Twitter owner transition: Temporary ban on product update... by brink on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @02:13PM (#31171012)
I'm in the same boat - there's no way I would have worked at Twitter a year ago; but now I would consider it. Elon's acquisition has made me much more optimistic about the outlook of the company. If Twitter has a mass exodus after the acquisition, I'm sure there's a wave of open-minded engineers ready to take their place.
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Re:Twitter owner transition: Temporary ban on product update... by recuter on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @02:25PM (#31171176)
Twitter: 500 million tweets a day. WhatsApp: 65 billion messages a day.

Is writing better spam filters / bot detection really so fun sounding? I don't get the fascination, it just seems like one of the most boring websites in the world. (Not being sarcastic)

It is up and running for a long time already, written and rewritten and rerewritten.

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Re:Twitter owner transition: Temporary ban on product update... by mensetmanusman on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @02:30PM (#31171247)
Twitter: 500 million public posts a day.

WhatsApp: 0 public posts a day.

This might be comparing apples to oranges, as one is more like a global town square, and one is more like a postal service.

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Re:Twitter owner transition: Temporary ban on product update... by twblalock on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @02:28PM (#31171230)
You know there's a lot more going on inside a company that serves that kind of traffic than just spam filters, right?
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Re:Twitter owner transition: Temporary ban on product update... by recuter on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @02:34PM (#31171314)
Sure. And I know it isn't directly comparable to WhatsApp but it isn't mind boggling scale really.

You want to work on the adtech side of it there's quite a few of those exchanges similar in size around, they just aren't house hold names. Where is the fun? I'm genuinely asking.

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