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by joshribakoff 1320 days ago
Maybe, maybe not. I don’t think the number of engineers needs to scale with the servers. You can scale out servers without scaling out your number of engineers. As far as moderation, Twitter is already poorly moderated and moderation can be outsourced.

The types of things that require scaling out engineers is supporting video embeds from 100s of different video hosting platforms.