[raverbashing]

True

However they're much simple products, subject to a lot less load

I think Instagram hasn't achieved the kind of load that Twitter has had a couple of years ago

Whatsapp has a higher bandwidth, however groups seem much simpler to manage (messages stay in small groups)

[riffraff]

but isn't instagram effectively the same thing as twitter, with a much smaller team?

[raverbashing]

How many photos they have per second compared to how many tweets there are per second?

How many API requests happen every second for twitter and instagram?

Instagram has only began support for free format photos now.

So maybe twitter engineering is inflated, but it's a different product beyond the 'stuff in a timeline' description

[BurningFrog]

> However they're much simpler products

Maybe that's the point!