Why’s that company so big? I could do that in a weekend

Re:Why’s that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by tehjoker on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:32AM (#37685597)

They have pictures and video now. You also have to sort them in real time, check for blocked, mutes, etc, and each tweet is amplified to followers so one tweet requires e.g. 700 copies or 1M copies depending on follower count.

The text part is basically solved at this point, but not quite that easy. I hear dealing with blocks is one of the slow parts.

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Re:Why’s that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by MrLeap on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:52AM (#37685755)

HN doesn't host pictures or video. I come here well before I do twitter, reddit, facebook, youtube or anywhere else on the internet commons.

I hazard there's a verdant, halcyon prairie between the two zones. The common zone of maximum extraction, and the hypothetical 200$-a-month-operating-costs text only twitter that can service 5% of the entire planet.

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Re:Why’s that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by tehjoker on Sunday October 01, 2023 @02:32AM (#37723311)

Perhaps, but you'd be missing a lot of good memes

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