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Re:The Great Microservices vs. Monolithic Apps Twitter Melee by bunderbunder on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @06:42PM (#8205069)
There's an interesting startup that I think does that. It's called Facebook.
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Re:The Great Microservices vs. Monolithic Apps Twitter Melee by aikah on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @07:41PM (#8205262)
Then why are people using Twitter then ? You cant say Facebook is like Twitter with more characters in the messages,it simply doesnt work.
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Re:The Great Microservices vs. Monolithic Apps Twitter Melee by FooBarWidget on Thursday August 21, 2014 @03:16AM (#8206206)
Because Twitter has a lower barrier to entry. Yes the 140 character limit sucks. But because of the character limit, people are more inclined to open Twitter in the first place. The psychological advantage of that outweights the disadvantage of hitting the 140 character limit later, at least for users.
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