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Comment by MuffinFlavored

Please excuse my ignorance. Why are 1,000+ SWEs needed (let alone custom tooling to support them)?

Twitter features I know about:

1. Timeline recommendations (with personalized/relevant ads sprinkled in)

2. Notifications (so you get pushed an iOS/Android alert when somebody you subscribe to tweets)

3. Being able to post/view media (image/video/polls)

4. Direct private messaging

5. Concept of following/followers with recommendations

6. Threads/retweets/replies

7. Advertising dashboard/analytics for advertisers to create + track campaigns

8. "Explore" / "What's happening" / automatically serve "trending" content / topics

9. Lists / bookmarks

10. Anti-spam / anti-fraud

11. User profiles / settings

If I missed noteworthy/sizable/heavily used by masses features, please let me know.

Why can't that be managed + developed on new features wise with 1,000 SWEs? or 500? Genuinely asking. Would love to learn what I'm missing.

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