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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by cdf on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @04:19AM (#33703734)
Getting it to about 90% working in a single country or just the general western sphere, probably 100 will suffice.

Making it globally available and legally compliant, that's where the next few thousand folks come in.

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by BeefWellington on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:42AM (#33706289)
Indeed. Just translating it could be a team of at least N+0.5 people, where N is the number of languages you want to translate your product to (the +0.5 accounting for translation verifications). Even if you outsource it that just slows down feature deployment IME.

The people shouting loudly about how Twitter must have been so bloated are really just shouting their obvious inexperience working at global scales or their localized ambitions.

Could there be too many employees at Twitter? Sure. Most companies have dead weight. The number who were "extra" is probably not 9/10ths the employees though.

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