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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by ceres on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:54PM (#33660015)
And yet WhatsApp had 55 employees at acquisition.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/whatsapp-bought-for-19-b...

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by kibwen on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:18PM (#33660504)
WhatsApp is (was) an instant messenger, not an ad-supported media company.
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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by uxcolumbo on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:04PM (#33661244)
Did Whatsapp serve ads?

Did it have to moderate content?

Twitter is vastly more complex than Whatsapp when it comes to functionality and platforms it had to support.

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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by lesuorac on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:06PM (#33662196)
WhatsApp didn't get to 55 employees by having 2000 and then randomly firing 97% of them.

The argument is not that twitter can't be ran leaner, it's that the current process of leaning twitter is bad.

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