[ulfw]

There's zero "trade secrets" (everyone knows how twitter works) and no technical secrets necessary. Threads is just instagram. It works and looks the same way. Instagram is photos with text, Threads is text with photos. The latter is not exactly rocket science to build when you already have built the former at scale and ran it successfully for years. And that's the genius of it!

[tentacleuno]

How does everyone know how Twitter works? Doesn't it use proprietary code?

[bagels]

They have published a lot of blogs over the years, eg:

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

[losthubble]

Well they open sourced part of it, https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

and then I'm pretty sure Elon had a whiteboard session during his first days before firing everyone and had people explain it to him. Which he then posted on his twitter account. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593899029531803649?s=20