Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former employees to create a “copycat” application.
Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former employees to create a “copycat” application.
That’s… Patently not true. Twitter, has come up with many novel innovations while running their site. If you look at their engineering blog, there’s tons of information about the work they do. Not to mention, many of their scaling concerns have become staple system design interview questions (e.g. “the celebrity problem”)
Now, as a business…? Yeah, they never quite took off there.