Re:Twitter's high ROI engineering work
by agentdrtran on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @12:56PM
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> The Twitter product has not meaningfully changed or evolved in 10 years.
In the last few years alone they made huge changes like Blue, reader mode, ad-free articles, super follows, birdwatch, spaces/ticketed spaces, the list goes on.
Re:Twitter's high ROI engineering work
by zimpenfish on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @03:12PM
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All under an FTC consent degree which required "that Twitter produce written privacy assessments of any new “product, service or practice” — or when Twitter updates those things — that could affect user data or put it at risk."[1] - not an environment where you can "move fast and break things"!
[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/11/tech/musk-twitter-ftc/ind...
Re:Twitter's high ROI engineering work
by usednet on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:48PM
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> The Reddit product has not meaningfully changed or evolved in 10 years
> The Apple product has not meaningfully changed or evolved in 10 years
> The WhatsApp product has not meaningfully changed or evolved in 10 years
Re:Twitter's high ROI engineering work
by sn0w_crash on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @04:06PM
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How are these good examples? Those product’s revenue streams and user bases have grown tremendously.
Twitter’s workforce bloat has outpaced both its users, revenue, and its share price.
Revenue and user growth and product stagnated. So who cares about optimizing a further 100ms improvement or what OSS they maintained?
The “interesting stuff” you see in this post is what many engineers love to do. Make work for the sake of work. It doesn’t always translate into growth.