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Re:At Twitter by logical42 on Monday September 16, 2013 @10:50AM (#6393519)
I think you might be underestimating the task of scaling an app to a quarter of a billion users.
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Re:At Twitter by bnycum on Monday September 16, 2013 @11:01AM (#6393578)
True, but I'm also saying that Instagram had 13 employees at the time of being bought out. I don't have any numbers of users they had at the time but I know they had 1M+ new users on their Android launch. Which makes me assume a large iOS crowd.
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Re:At Twitter by logical42 on Monday September 16, 2013 @11:57PM (#6397479)
If we figure that the engineer count scales linearly to the user count (which I don't actually think is true), then you've just justified twitter having 2,600 engineers. That is, if Instagram had 13 engineers for 1 million users. (they likely had less engineers but more users though).
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