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at its core twitter is ad delivery + a timeline of followers/curated recommendations

you can make a twitter clone front + back in a night from scratch

they already have the hard “scale” to handle lots of traffic in a stable/fast manner done

how many employees and managers do you need to maintain this + add new features? 7,000 seems pretty high. 3,000 sounds kind of high too but i don’t know the split between departments like legal, HR, etc.

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