Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users
by twelve40 on Sunday January 29, 2023 @09:46AM
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this still doesn't shine light on why Twitter had 7000 people and whatsap had 50. I know about the ads and tools, that doesn't explain two orders of magnitude (besides I heard they were pretty basic)
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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users
by ianburrell on Sunday January 29, 2023 @01:23PM
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Twitter had 7000 in 2022, WhatsApp had 50 in 2015. WhatsApp has more now and Twitter has less. Twitter had less in the past, 30 in 2009, 150 in 2011, 2700 in 2013 after IPO.
Twitter and WhatsApp are both way more complicated than used to be both in terms of features and usage. They also make way more money, which both takes more people and supports more people.