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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by carbonatedmilk on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:31AM (#33653191)
I'm not saying it's a fair metric, but when I compare Twitter's open output to similarly VC-funded-but-now-public companies, the engineering output doesn't seem particularly exciting.

For comparison:

Meta / Facebook:

* React

* PyTorch

* Fasttext

* Their unsung-but-indispensible-for-humanitarian-orgs Data for Good program

Google:

* Flutter

* Go

* Kubernetes

* Tensorflow

* BERT / Large language models generally

* Mapreduce / Hadoop

The much-maligned Uber:

* H3 Geospatial indexing

* Kepler.gl

* Manifold

Even AirBNB!

* Airflow

* Superset

I use most of these products (or their descendants) every day in my work. When I think of Twitter, all I think of is how they arbitrarily shut off humanitarian access to their APIs (and earlier, the Twitter firehose). There's not a single Twitter-supported open product that I use.

Am I the only one? Is there a great Twitter-supported project that I missed?

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by doitLP on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:38AM (#33653238)
Bootstrap!

It’s the only one I could think of but it certainly had a big impact on lots of people, enabling a lot of devs who were bad at design and responsiveness to make halfway decent looking websites.

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by sciurus on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:39AM (#33653251)
See https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1592774269733601281 for some of the examples of technical innovation at Twitter.
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by maltalex on Friday November 18, 2022 @07:47PM (#33665302)
How many of these innovations have been open sourced?
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by disgruntledphd2 on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:39AM (#33653246)
> Their unsung-but-indispensible-for-humanitarian-orgs Data for Good program

I'm pretty sure almost all of this team was laid off (certainly the people I knew who worked on it were).

> * Airflow

This is actually a clone of an internal FB tool (written by the same author after he left FB).

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by carbonatedmilk on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:52AM (#33653366)
> I'm pretty sure almost all of this team was laid off (certainly the people I knew who worked on it were).

That's really sad news. The crew I interacted with (Alex, Omari, Tobias, others) were top-flight engineers who also really understood the problem space and how to navigate the internal complexities of Meta. Hope the laid off / repositioned staff are OK, and if they're looking for new opportunities my email's in my profile.

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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by Keyframe on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:40AM (#33653266)
They could've supported bootstrap more than they did, right?
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by _rs on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:35AM (#33653217)
Bootstrap, though it has been a long time since I’ve used it (and I don’t know if they actively support it)
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by rilut on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:41AM (#33653270)
+ Presto from Facebook
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by antirez on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:35AM (#33653214)
Pellican (caching system), Bootstarp, their unique IDs system, a few more.
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by jsiepkes on Friday November 18, 2022 @07:51AM (#33653858)
Twitter developed Finagle, which led to Linkerd. Twitter did a whole bunch of pioneering of service mesh related technologies.
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by matwood on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:10AM (#33654045)
Years ago they did snowflake, a distributed ID generation library, that I used. They retired it long ago though.
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