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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by chrisseaton on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:31PM (#33659470)

Are football fans really a big part of the Twitter user base?

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by partiallypro on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:38PM (#33659627)

Football Twitter is pretty big, but I don't think it's big enough to cause a big dent.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by crooked-v on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:39PM (#33659669)

Twitter experiences massive usage surges every year during the World Cup.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by acomms on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:46PM (#33659839)

Every month in fact!

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by Beldin on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:47PM (#33659847)

Which sport? Football's world cup is once every 4 years...

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by chrisseaton on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:55PM (#33660031)

> every year during the World Cup

Wat?

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by rhino369 on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:42PM (#33659747)

I don't know about soccer, but American sports news is hugely tied up with twitter. It's replaced the sports page of the news paper, ESPN, and even sports radio. I imagine it's the same for international football.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by hfbff on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:43PM (#33659771)

Football fans are a sizable group in pretty much in every social network

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by jacquesc on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:59PM (#33660117)

I can't actually imagine watching NFL without using Twitter during commercials (or after something crazy happens). It's actually quite spectacular

World Cup is definitely going to surge traffic

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by spookie on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:20PM (#33660545)

I would guess so. As long as you are doing business outside North America, this is a fair concern to have.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by chrisseaton on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:39PM (#33666213)

At least in the UK Twitter was mostly politicians, journalists, and tech.

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